America Quote by Peter Medawar

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science.…

— Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with…

— Jacques Lacan

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

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

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all…

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

— Carl Jung

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

— Frederick Crews

Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it, too, hangs…

— Peter Medawar

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

— Peter De Vries

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

— Karl Kraus

“Most people believe psychoanalysis is a cure for unhappiness. They are sure they could overcome all their problems”

— Dean Koontz