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This dictionary offers definitions and explanations of medical and philosophical concepts, providing a resource for understanding complex ideas in both fields.
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“The neurotic has problems; the psychotic has solutions.”
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”
“In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.”
“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.”
“Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.”
“Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.”
“We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder; ugliness is in the personality of the beholden”