Influence Quote by Ross Macdonald

Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean…

— D. M. Thomas

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head…

— R. D. Laing

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 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

“Psychoanalysis and Greek mythology are two sides of the same medallion. To put it differently: without classical mythology, there would be no psychoanalysis. If…

— Helen Morales

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head…

— R. D. Laing

I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.

— Gene Wilder

I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of…

— Thomas R. Insel

“Freud was the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated…

— Dan Wilbur

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

— Italo Calvino

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

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion…

— Stanislav Grof