Sigmund Freud Quotes

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to reveal, and what behaviors or stances the character tries out on the shrink that might not be part of the character's make-up outside of that room. It's an emotional test-kitchen.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.

I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.

Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.

My vanity and narcissism will never let me go too far.

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.

If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin. But when I made my way in the world I wanted to indulge myself in my fantasies to the extent that I could afford.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you.

We must become masters of our own actions and attitudes. To let another person determine whether we will be rude or gracious, elated or depressed is to give control of ourselves. The only true possession is self possession.

One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.