Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.