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The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

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

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 think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.

I went into therapy several times, but it rarely made an impact.