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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I've never gone into analysis. But Freud opened a door, I know.
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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.
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.