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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

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He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

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The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.

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Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.

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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

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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.

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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

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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.

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Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: April 15th, 1920

Died: September 8th, 2012

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