Occupation: Psychiatrist Birth: October 7, 1927 Death: August 23, 1989
The square root of nothing..
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die..
Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality..
Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth..
What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any other profession..
If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know. If I do not know that I know, I think I do not know..
The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly va….
A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can b….
We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and pl….
If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it s….
Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities..
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world..
Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable..
Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment..
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensiv….
The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than ….
The human mind has to ask "Who, what, whence, whither, why am I?" And it is very doubtful if the human mind can answer any of these questions..
One cannot say everything at once..
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness,….
Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these ….
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic..