Conversion Quote by Stanislav Grof

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

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

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

I loved the study of psychology. I didn't love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.

— Laurie Helgoe

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

I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never…

— William James

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

— Claire Danes

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what…

— Benjamin Carson

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to…

— Robert Jay Lifton

I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in…

— Ram Dass

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 was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

— Holly Willoughby