George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.

I don't believe in psychology.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.

Treatment is the way to go. It can work if you have the right model.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

In London, it's quite a rarefied activity to be on an analyst's couch.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

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.

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

I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.