Lessons Quote by Woody Allen

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

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

— Gene Fowler

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

— Albert Ellis

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

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Otto F. Kernberg

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

— Dario Argento

“As with good history, good psychoanalytic interpretations must also make sense, pull together as much of the known data as possible, provide a coherent…

— Stephen A. Mitchell

I've always wanted to be psychoanalyzed in a den of iniquity.

— Maya Banks

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

“[T]he psychoanalytic process should be understood as occurring between subjects rather than within the individual. Mental life is seen from an intersubjective perspective. Although…

— Jessica Benjamin