Fitness Quote by Otto F. Kernberg

“short, I am suggesting that the superego aspects of a psychoanalytic identity are reflected not only in moral integrity (in a moral as opposed…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Freud answers by suggesting that the harshness that can be shown by the superego is a result of the channelling of part of the…

— Joseph Sandler

“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

“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

“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

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

— Otto F. Kernberg

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country…

— Siri Hustvedt

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

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion…

— Tony Campolo

[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 can unravel some of the forms of madness; it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of unreason. It can neither limit nor…

— Michel Foucault