Religion Quote by Otto F. Kernberg

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

“psychoanalytic institute as a university college, as an institution for the transmission, exploration, and generation of knowledge, including”

— Otto F. Kernberg

“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

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

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion. Present company…

— Frank Herbert

In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous)…

— Jay E. Adams

“Chasseguet-Smirgel and Grunberger (1986) have described how psychoanalytic thinking and understanding can be transformed into an ideology or political program containing messianic and/or paranoid…

— Otto F. Kernberg

So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of theology; I…

— Noam Chomsky

“The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.”

— John Calvin

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

— CS Lewis

“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.”

— Richard P. Feynman

“if psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a post-religious world and retail is the late 20th century's way of…

— David Rakoff