A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. Author Unknown

[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945

Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. Douglas Busch

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? Michael Torke

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. Mark Epstein

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. G.K. Chesterton

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. Unknown psychology professor

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin: Psychology, 1973

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. Vladimir Nabokov, 1951

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. Wilhelm Stekel

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 reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button. Martin H. Fischer

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. Carl Jung

I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. Peter O'Toole, on psychoanalysis

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. Sigmund Freud, attributed

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves. Gabrielle Roth

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

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. Carl G. Jung