Book Quote by Thomas Merton

Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with…

— Eric Kandel

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

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

— Margaret Trudeau

I reveled in political science and history of all kinds, and I felt for a long time that I had discovered all the secrets…

— Richard Cohen

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my…

— Jessica Lange

“Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of   his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation might not…

— Peter Cole

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

— Richard P. Feynman

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

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

I first read Freud's famous case study on hysteria based on his client Ida Bauer when I was in my twenties. It pissed me…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the…

— Carl Jung