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“There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.”

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Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer who played a pivotal role in the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work on the Encyclopédie, which aimed to compile all the knowledge of the time into a single work. more

“The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life.”

Life May Long Facts Belief Periods Expectations Illness Psychological Fixed Suspects Phenomenon Unnecessary Persist Severe Neurotic Neurosis Layman

Book:New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Source: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

“Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world.”

World Results Conflict Ego Relation Psychological Outcomes Neurosis Disturbance Psychosis

Book:Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.”

Security Independence Psychological Anxious Ruined Despised Apprehension

Book:Burke, Select Works

Source: Burke, Select Works

“A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.”

Way Persons Has Beens Given Punishment Psychological Behave

Author:B. F. Skinner

“After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By sticking it out through tough times, they emerge stronger from adversity.”

People Tough Stronger Adversity Psychological Tough Times Efficacy Self Efficacy Sticking It

Author:Albert Bandura

“My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.”

Use Decision Train Recovery Psychological You Choose Tickets Psychoanalysis

Author:Sigmund Freud

“A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.”

May Mean Individual Loss Identity Strange Disease Mere Reactions Psychological Preserves Excess Organisms

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.”

Mind Humans Body Weakness Psychological Cures Human Mind Physicians Infirmity

Book:L.P.

Source: L.P.

“A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.”

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Author:Bob Hope

“As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.”

Mind Heart Long Quality Objects Psychological Beloved Heart And Mind Misunderstanding

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

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