I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
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'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.
I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.
The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.