History Quote by Stephen A. Mitchell

“Of all the recent applied psychoanalytic work, some is useful and some of it rather inadequate, but all of it tends to ignore the…

— Christopher Hauke

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

“paranoid atmosphere that often pervades psychoanalytic institutes and its devastating effect on the “quality of life” in psychoanalytic education. Members”

— Otto F. Kernberg

I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.

— Dario Argento

“introspection and self-analysis, a creative capacity, an ability to think under adverse circumstances, ethical behavior that assures avoiding acting out in the counter transference,…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Subtle but significant superego pathology may easily go undetected throughout psychoanalytic training and only emerge later in trivialization, cynical relativism, messianic deterioration, and rigidly…

— Otto F. Kernberg

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

— Otto F. Kernberg

“Chasseguet-Smirgel and Grunberger (1986) have described how psychoanalytic thinking and understanding can be transformed into an ideology or political program containing messianic and/or paranoid…

— Otto F. Kernberg

“psychoanalytic institute as a university college, as an institution for the transmission, exploration, and generation of knowledge, including”

— Otto F. Kernberg

For a psychoanalyst to be any good... he'd have to believe that it was through the grace of God that he'd been inspired to…

— Anonymous

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with…

— Jacques Lacan

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