Art Quote by Otto F. Kernberg

“psychoanalysis is more than a technique; it is an art, and highly specialized training in craftsmanship will”

— 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

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

— Otto F. Kernberg

Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial…

— Carl Jung

“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

“[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

“training analysts that utilizes the exacerbation of idealization processes inherent in psychoanalytic training to consolidate its power and the related narcissistic gratification by exercising…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“introspection and self-analysis, a creative capacity, an ability to think under adverse circumstances, ethical behavior that assures avoiding acting out in the counter transference,…

— 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

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

— Thomas Szasz

Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or…

— Peter Medawar

“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