In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the more he trusts those who wield such power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
The FDA calls certain substances "controlled." But there are no "controlled substances," there are only controlled citizens.
Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing
The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.
The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.
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