Autobiography Quote by R Z Sheppard

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

— Otto F. Kernberg

Freud was just a novelist.

— Peter Ackroyd

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

— Karl Kraus

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

— Eric Kandel

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

“Indeed psychoanalysis makes sense only as part of the larger cultural conversation in the arts that became known as modernism. Vienna, where Freud lived…

— Adam Phillips

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 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

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

— Al Alvarez

“...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually the entire…

— Peter Watson

Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly…

— Gore Vidal