Heavy Quote by Robert Jay Lifton

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because…

— Judith Viorst

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

— Peter Gay

Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers,…

— Janet Malcolm

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer.…

— Pat Conroy

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a…

— Christopher Rice

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.

— Will Self

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that…

— Robert Rauschenberg

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it…

— Albert Ellis

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

— Anne Stevenson

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it…

— Albert Ellis

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

— Albert Ellis

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true…

— Truman Capote