Paul Pierce Quotes

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

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

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

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.

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

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.

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

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.

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.

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

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

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.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety.

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.