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• Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, ‘Tell me your favorite movies,’ it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you.

  Andrew Sarris

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• Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

  Germaine Greer

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• Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

  Germaine Greer

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• 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.

  Stephen King

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• 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.

  Stanislav Grof

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• The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

  Sigmund Freud

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• Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

  Saul Bellow

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• Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

  Wilhelm Reich

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• Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times – almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I’ve seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.

  Bette Davis

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• I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren’t listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.

  Albert Ellis

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• An actor shouldn’t undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you’re better off not knowing.

  Paul Lynde

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• 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.

  Albert Ellis

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

  Karl Kraus

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