[Psychoanalysis] is not the on...

[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945~

Work cure is the best of all p...

Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.

~Richard C. Cabot~

Words are the physicians of a ...

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

~Aeschylus~

Why waste money on psychothera...

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

~Michael Torke~

Why do we pay for psychotherap...

Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?

~Jason Love~

Who knows, the mind has the ke...

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

~Amos Bronson Alcott~

We have lost the art of living...

We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

~D. H. Lawrence~

To mature means to take respon...

To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own.  Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

~Fritz Perls~

To be too conscious is an illn...

To be too conscious is an illness - a real thoroughgoing illness.

~Fyodor Dostoevski~

Thoughts shut up want air, And...

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun

~ Edward Young, Night Thoughts~

There is no psychology; there ...

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin: Psychology, 1973~

There is no psychiatrist in th...

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

~Ben Williams~

There are now electrical appli...

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960~

There are cases where psychoan...

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else.  But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

~C.G. Jung~

The two main hazards of psycho...

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 those wasted years.

~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966~

The reflex is physiology below...

The reflex is physiology below the collar button.  Psychology is physiology above the collar button.

~Martin H. Fischer~

The purpose of psychology is t...

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

~Paul Valéry, Tel Quel, 1943~

The mind is ever ingenious in ...

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

~Oliver Goldsmith~

The intellect is always fooled...

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

~Francois de La Rochefoucauld~

The hypothalamus is one of the...

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions.  The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

~Unknown psychology professor in neuropsychology course~