Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.... — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
“We want him to see that as a result of being parented by imperfect parents, he (she) chooses the wrong people for the right… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
