Quotes of Psychoanalyst - somelinesforyou

“ I just had a client this week who came to me after 10 years of Freudian therapy. He's in love with his analyst, and she is sort of in love with him. ”

- Albert Ellis

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

- Karl Kraus

“ Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. ”

- Italo Calvino

“ Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. ”

- Gene Fowler

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

- Karl Kraus

“ I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. ”

- Al Alvarez

“ Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up. ”

- Morton Hunt

“ We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet. ”

- Max Walker

“ Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist. ”

- Unknown

“ In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing… ”

- James Thurber
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