--- title: "6 Ethan Watters Quotes - Famous Journalist" description: "American journalist... | Ethan Watters is an American journalist. He is the author of articles for The New York Times Magazine, Spin, Details, Mother Jo..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/ethan-watters-54548_conscious-mind_shorter-believes-that-psychosomatic-illn_5524.jpg" --- # Ethan Watters (1964) Journalist **6** quotes in **19** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Ethan Watters is a journalist. ## Quick Facts About Ethan Watters Born July 1, 1964 Profession Journalist ## About Ethan Watters American journalist... \| Ethan Watters is an American journalist. He is the author of articles for The New York Times Magazine, Spin, Details, Mother Jones, Glamour, GQ, Esquire, and the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine as well as books. He has also appeared on a number of media outlets such as Good Morning America, Talk of ## Quotes by Ethan Watters > [“Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/shorter-believes-that-psychosomatic-illnesses-such-as-leg-paralysis/) [Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/) [Conscious mind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conscious-mind/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/ethan-watters-54548_conscious-mind_shorter-believes-that-psychosomatic-illn_5524.jpg) > [“Looking at ourselves through the eyes of those living in places where human tragedy is still embedded in complex religious and cultural…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/looking-at-ourselves-through-the-eyes-of-those-living-in-places-where/) [Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/) [Fear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20f/ethan-watters-54548_fear_looking-at-ourselves-through-the-eyes-of_360486.jpg) > [“Behind the promotion of Western ideas of mental health and healing lies a variety of cultural assumptions about human nature itself. Westerners…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/behind-the-promotion-of-western-ideas-of-mental-health-and-healing/) [Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/) [Health](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/health/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/163/ethan-watters-54548_health_behind-the-promotion-of-western-ideas-of_523818.jpg) > [“Because our culture so highly values an illusion of self-control and control of circumstance, we become abject when contemplating mentation that seems…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/because-our-culture-so-highly-values-an-illusion-of-self-control-and/) [Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/) [Discipline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discipline/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99d/ethan-watters-54548_discipline_because-our-culture-so-highly-values-an_1395634.jpg) > [“Because we cannot see the roads we have not taken, we become, by defaults, advocates for the path our life is on.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/because-we-cannot-see-the-roads-we-have-not-taken-we-become-by/) [Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/) [Journey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/journey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/298/ethan-watters-54548_journey_because-we-cannot-see-the-roads-we-have_2359445.jpg) > [“In the cosmology of Western Christians, life’s challenges provide opportunities to become stronger and to have a closer relationship with God. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ethan-watters/in-the-cosmology-of-western-christians-life-s-challenges-provide/) [Ethan Watters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/) [Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/ethan-watters-54548_christianity_in-the-cosmology-of-western-christians-l_3141033.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ethan-watters/#itemlist", "name": "Ethan Watters Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the turn of the twenty-first) are examples of the unconscious mind attempting to speak in a language of emotional distress that will be understood in its time. People at a given moment in history in need of expressing their psychological suffering have a limited number of symptoms to choose from—a “symptom pool,” as he calls it. 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