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Psychoanalyst Inspirational Quotes (972)

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It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.
Helene Deutsch
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I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours.
Erich Fromm
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Insights from myth, dreams, and intuitions, from glimpses of an invisible reality, and from perennial human wisdom provide us with hints and guesses about the meaning of life and what we are here for. Prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action are the means through which we grow and find meaning.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
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The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.
R. D. Laing
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We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
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I am no longer afraid to say anything.
Anna Freud
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How can one know anything at all about people?
Anna Freud
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If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me.
Anna Freud
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Sex is something you do. Sexuality is something you are.
Anna Freud
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Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
Anna Freud
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Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?
Anna Freud
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Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
Anna Freud
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It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Anna Freud
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Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
Anna Freud
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Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.
Anna Freud
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If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
Anna Freud
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We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
Anna Freud
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What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.
Erich Fromm
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Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.
R. D. Laing
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[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.
Erich Fromm
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Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.
Erich Fromm
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We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
Theodor Reik
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The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind.
Sigmund Freud
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Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.
Charles W. Socarides
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