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Psychoanalysis

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Qualification: MA
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Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques related to the study of the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental-health disorders. The discipline was established in the early 1890s by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud and stemmed partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.
Stanisław Lem His Master's Voice (1968) Translation by Michael Kandel (1983), Preface
Psychoanalysis
I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
Nora Ephron, in The Guardian, 26 June 1995, as reported in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 379.
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis does not distort the truth by accident. It does so by necessity. It is an effective system for the suppression of the truth about childhood, a truth feared by our entire society. Not surprisingly, it enjoys great esteem among intellectuals... Fear of the truth about child abuse is a leitmotif of nearly all forms of therapy known to me.
Alice Miller The Drama of the Gifted Child (Das Drama des begabten Kindes, 1979).
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