Sigmund Freud Quotes About Psychiatry
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It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
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I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion
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The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.
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Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.
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Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.
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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
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Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.
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Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
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