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The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver.
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.
He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
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