Learning Quote by Otto F. Kernberg

“Subtle but significant superego pathology may easily go undetected throughout psychoanalytic training and only emerge later in trivialization, cynical relativism, messianic deterioration, and rigidly…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide a coherent…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

“paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the “quality of life” in psychoanalytic education. Members”

— Otto F. Kernberg

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young…

— Abraham Maslow

Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set…

— Gilles Deleuze

“Of all the recent applied psychoanalytic work, some is useful and some of it rather inadequate, but all of it tends to ignore the…

— Christopher Hauke

“psychoanalytic institutes as monasteries or religious retreats and psychoanalysis as a system of religious beliefs. Whereas”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“[T]he psychoanalytic process should be understood as occurring between subjects rather than within the individual. Mental life is seen from an intersubjective perspective. Although…

— Jessica Benjamin

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

— Erich Fromm

“Because psychoanalytic institutes have not attempted to develop such functional administrative structures, the prevalent defenses of idealization and feelings of persecution have contributed to…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“the secretive oedipal couple and the excluded children so prevalent in psychoanalytic institutes. The “paranoiagenic” (Jaques, 1976) atmosphere of psychoanalytic institutes, the”

— Otto F. Kernberg

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in…

— Anonymous