Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.

Guilt is the mafia of the mind.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to recreate the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Nostalgia is just another form of depression.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.

I'm going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

The object of psychology is to give us a totally different idea of the things we know best.

Idleness is the parent of all psychology.

There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates-in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means that he is even worse than my brother-in-law.

Life hardly ever lives up to our anxieties.

Insanity; a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, Maybe life isn't for everyone.

The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.

Psychoanalysis makes quite simple people feel they're complex.