Psychoanalysis makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.

After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone."

Insanity; a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means that he is even worse than my brother-in-law.

There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates-in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

Idleness is the parent of all psychology.

The object of psychology is to give us a totally different idea of the things we know best.

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