Rachel Weisz Quotes

I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to reveal, and what behaviors or stances the character tries out on the shrink that might not be part of the character's make-up outside of that room. It's an emotional test-kitchen.

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

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

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

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

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

Personally, I think I've got split personalities, and I may need a psychiatrist. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seriously. I'm serious about this.

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

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

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.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it.

It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.

I also have a degree in marriage, family and child counseling - I'm a therapist.