Bernard Berenson Quotes

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

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

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.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.

The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

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

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.

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

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.

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

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

A man's body and his mind, with the utmost reverence to both I speak it, are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining; rumple the one, you rumple the other.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

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

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.

...since you can't heal your own sick mind with your own sick mind, I needed to consult somebody else's sick mind.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.

I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

I think we have to monitor our minds the way we need to monitor our bodies.