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
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. — 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
