Peter De Vries Quotes

I don't believe in psychology.

Psycho-analyses, how disgusting.

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

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

I'm not that taken with Freudian perspectives. They seem to be overcomplicated.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

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

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

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

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

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.

I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.

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

I don't want to do anything Freudian.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.

Don't talk to me about Freud. I'll go up the wall!

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

I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.