Choose Quote by Sigmund Freud

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

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

— Carl Jung

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

— Alexander Cannon

'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful…

— Geoff Shepherd

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

— Rollo May

If you are going to recover you HAVE to want to.

— Anonymous

You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery - and there's not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.

— Bill Bonner

“no recovery from trauma is possible without attending to issues of safety, care for the self, reparative connections to other human beings, and a…

— Janina Fisher

“Many traumatized people expose themselves, seemingly compulsively, to situations reminiscent of the original trauma….Freud thought the aim of repetition was to gain mastery, but…

— Jon Krakauer

Walking alone, just thinking - that's treatment, man. That's the most comforting rehab I've known.

— Tyrann Mathieu

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

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky