The psychoanalytic method has only a limited usefulness, as its theory has only a quarter truth. If adopted and followed unrestrainedly it may do as much harm as good, or sometimes even more. It may make the patient so self-absorbed that he is deprived of the broad interest in life necessary to a healthy mind. It may cause him to go on seeking for childhood experiences that never existed, for the alleged roots of his trouble--a process over which people have sometimes wasted years. He may read extreme sexual meanings into his night dreams and his day thoughts, and thus come to absurd attitudes towards life. And finally, the patient may become so dependent on the analyst that he is a helpless creature unable to cope with the world by his own willed and personal response.
-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 4 : Healers of The Body and Mind > # 70
