#psychoanalysis

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#psychiatry #psychoanalysis #psychology #love

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#directive #foolishly #forms #freudian #i

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#freud #had #mother #psychoanalysis

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#bed #between #character #connection #intimate

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#disguise #entirely #faculty #man #moral

An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#because #better #better off #knowing #lot

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. ↗

— William Gibson

#engineering #psychoanalysis #psychology #design

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history. (243) ↗

— Norman Doidge

#death #ghosts #grief #healing-the-past #loss

Shit on your whole mortifying, imaginary, and symbolic theater! ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

#psychoanalysis #shit #capitalism

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #love #lovers #psychiatry