Siri Hustvedt

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments.

American Novelist

Hans Eysenck

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

German Psychologist

Thomas Szasz

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

American Psychologist

Alan Dundes

My own bias in folkloristics is decidedly psychoanalytic. I believe that the vast majority of folklore concerns fantasy, and because of that, I am persuaded that techniques of analyzing fantasy are relevant to folklore data.

American Educator

Chaim Potok

Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

American Author

Thomas R. Insel

I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.

American Scientist

Anna Freud

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Austrian Psychologist

Karl Abraham

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

Jacques Lacan

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

French Psychologist

Erik Erikson

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

While Freud founded psychoanalytic theory, the term now encompasses a broader range of techniques and ideas in therapy.

Not Just Freud

Psychoanalytic approaches focus on understanding deep-seated, often unconscious, emotional conflicts.

Unconscious Emphasis

Psychoanalytic theories are influenced by cultural contexts, shaping the interpretation of unconscious motivations.

Cultural Nuance

In a medical context, 'psychoanalytic' refers to a clinical approach for diagnosing or treating mental health conditions.

Medical Context

Psychoanalytic treatment often involves talking therapy, where patients discuss their thoughts with a therapist over multiple sessions.

Treatment Approach

Understanding the historical development of psychoanalysis can enhance comprehension of its current medical use.

History Relevance

Psychoanalytic theory also examines how the conscious mind is influenced by unconscious thoughts, not just the unconscious alone.

Conscious Mind Role

Psychoanalytic concepts are widely used in literature to analyze characters' motives beyond what's explicitly stated.

Literary Analysis

The term is often used in academic contexts, particularly within psychology, literature, and cultural studies.

Academic Usage

 First, I've had excellent treatment. Four- to five-day-a-week psychoanalytic psychotherapy for decades and continuing, and excellent psychopharmacology. Second, I have many close family members and friends who know me and know my illness. These relationships have given my life a meaning and a depth, and they also helped me navigate

A tale of mental illness...

 happiness is a doomed quest is propelled by infantile aspects of the individual that can never be met in reality he said one feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of creation so the ultimate goal of psychoanalytic