Home / Quotes / Quote by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Quote by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

“Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.”

Quote by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Book:Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy

Work

Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy

This book delves into the principles and practices of intensive psychotherapy, exploring various therapeutic approaches and their application in clinical settings. It provides insights into the theoretical underpinnings of intensive psychotherapy and offers practical guidance for therapists and mental health professionals. more

Author

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (October 23, 1889 - April 28, 1957) was a prominent psychologist and psychiatrist from Germany, known for her significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis. more

You May Also Like

“Punctuality comes high on my list of unforgivable sins.”

Sin Lists Punctuality Unforgivable Unforgivable Sin

Author:Dorothy Cannell

“rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.”

Children Beats Rain Window Scales Piano Untalented

Book:God Save the Queen!

Source: God Save the Queen!

“To me thin people never had any meaningful problems.”

People Problem Weight Meaningful

Author:Dorothy Cannell

“A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.”

People Heart Persons White Needed Racism Definitions Steel Ribs

Author:Gish Jen

“That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.”

Should Mind Persons Whole Purpose Suffering Found House Special Chosen Shelter

Book:Typical American

Source: Typical American

“It seems to me that obliviousness about white advantage, like obliviousness about male advantage, is kept strongly inculturated in the United States so as to maintain the myth of meritocracy, the myth that democratic choice is equally available to all. Keeping most people unaware that freedom of confident action is there for just a small number of people props up those in power and serves to keep power in the hands of the same groups that have most of it already.”

People States Hands Seems Action Choices White United Numbers United States Groups Racism Advantage Democratic Males Available Myth Props White Privilege Small Numbers Meritocracy

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.”

Ifs Race Racism Advantage Like Me Dominance White Privilege Outraged

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“Most talk by whites about equal opportunity seems to me now to be about equal opportunity to try to get into a position of dominance while denying that systems of dominance exist.”

Trying Seems Opportunity Position Equal Racism Dominance Equal Opportunity White Privilege

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.”

People Ifs Giving Country Life Is Certain White Virtue Doors Subjects Giving Up Racism Pressure Privilege Myth Elusive White Privilege Fugitive Meritocracy Free Country

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.”

Writing Enough Seems Issues Goes On

Author:Janette Turner Hospital