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You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

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I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

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I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

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Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

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Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

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In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

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Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

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I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

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I'm cautious about a lot of words.

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The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: Unknown

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