- “Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.” – Douglas Busch
- “Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.” – Samuel Alexander
- “Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.” - G.K. Chesterton
- “Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.” – James M. Baldwin
- “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White
- “The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.” – Sigmund Freud
- “A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.” – Joey Adams
- “There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.” – C.G. Jung
- “There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” – Ben Williams
- “Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” – Mason Cooley
- “A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they’re complex.” – S.N. Behrman
- “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.” – Hermann Ebbinghaus
- “A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.” – Jerome Lawrence
- “The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you’ll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.” – Mignon McLaughlin
- “The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.” – Paul Valéry
- “Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years.” - Thomas S. Szasz
- “Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of ‘progress,’ but only by viewing history as a neurosis.” – Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death
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