Sigmund Freud Quotes About Psychiatry

Quotes about: Psychiatry

• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strength, Death, Spiritual

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

• The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religion, Kind, Share

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.

  Sigmund Freud

  Art, Teaching, Feet

• It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hands, Giving, Littles

  Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere (1943). “A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis”

• I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

  Sigmund Freud

  Enemy, Religion, Dangerous

• The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Mind, Battle

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1958). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: The case of Schreber, papers on technique and other works”

• Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religion, Neurosis, Psychiatry

• Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

  Sigmund Freud

  Running, Attitude, Civilization

• Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Family, Girl, Fall

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