Anne Roiphe

I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too. The why of your life and the why of your choices and the what has happened that you know and the what that you don't know is really riveting, and psychoanalysts share my wonder at how it all unfolds.

Journalist

Karl Abraham

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

German Psychologist

Janet Malcolm

Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.

American Writer

Nathalie Sarraute

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

Russian Lawyer

Italo Calvino

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Italian Journalist

Britney Spears

I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

American Singer

Billy Wilder

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

American Director

Gene Fowler

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

American Journalist

Terry Eagleton

Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.

English Critic

Arthur Laurents

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

American Playwright

‘Psychoanalyst’ emphasizes treatment through exploring unconscious thoughts to heal mental issues.

Therapy Focus

A psychoanalyst is a professional, often with medical or psychological qualifications.

Professional Title

Talking about psychoanalysis should be done sensitively, as it relates to personal issues.

Sensitive Approach

 that needs to get to kind of the deepest crevices of intolerance, and the only way to get there is to kind of play the game. And so this is the way I dealt with it. They work in teams of two boys and a girl, two girls and a boy, three boys, three girls, no problem. And the Swiss psychoanalyst, Carl Jung, also spoke about

Naif Al-Mutawa:...

 economic standards the only perpetually devolving nation in the world and to cope with this or maintain or delusion we also have the highest concentration of psychoanalysts per capita in the world and if you don't want to spend your life in therapy you can do what I did which is you become a psychologist

Rethink how you think...

 Which is great news for psychoanalysts, because otherwise they'd be out of a job. Because that's where all the stuff happens that makes you who you are. Another thing you can't see is the grid on which we hang. This is fascinating.

What's invisible? More...

 Isn't that extraordinary? You cannot remember what happened to you earlier than the age of two or three, which is great news for psychoanalysts, because otherwise they'd be out of a job. Because that's where all the stuff happens

An inventory of the...

 and how to help people to overcome traumatic experiences and how to help them to regain some confidence in the time ahead -- in the future -- and how to participate again in everyday life. So, I am a Jungian psychoanalyst,

Inge Missmahl brings...

 with the same amount of information, and half of them will be anxious about radiation and half of them will ignore it. Now, psychoanalysts know very well that people surprisingly don't have passion for knowledge

Renata Salecl: Our...

 He is my psychoanalyst. He is my teacher. He's my doctor. He's my lawyer. He's my donor. He actually raises money, solves my disputes. He solves my problems in the village. If there's tension in the village,

Bunker Roy: Learning...

 afford a Park Avenue psychoanalyst who for five years tried to find the sexual trauma that had somehow locked positive emotion inside of him but it turned out there wasn't any sexual trauma it turned

On positive psychology -...

 And Len was wealthy enough to be able to afford a Park Avenue psychoanalyst, who for five years tried to find the sexual trauma that had somehow locked positive emotion inside of him.

The new era of positive...

 he is my psychoanalyst he's my teacher he's my doctor he's my lawyer he's my donor he actually raises money solves my disputes he solves my problems in the