#psychoanalyst

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Al Alvarez

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All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

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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

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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

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Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget. ↗

— Arthur Laurents

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I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary. ↗

— Britney Spears

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Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. ↗

— Gene Fowler

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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#cerebral #intestine #mind #minds #occupied

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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