American women Quote by Sigmund Freud

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

— Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

— Karl Kraus

“psychoanalysis is not a science: it is at best a medical process, and perhaps even more like witch-doctoring.”

— Richard P. Feynman

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

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

— Karl Kraus

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

— Peter De Vries

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

— Carl Jung

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

— Thomas Szasz

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

— Otto F. Kernberg

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

— Alexander Cannon

I would certainly like to see some young women take up psychoanalysis seriously and reconstruct it from an absolutely new viewpoint.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but…

— Karl A. Menninger