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Hans Eysenck

(1916–1997) Psychologist

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Hans Eysenck was a psychologist, best known for Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire.

Quick Facts About Hans Eysenck

Born: March 4, 1916
Died: September 4, 1997
Profession: Psychologist
Notable works: Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire

About Hans Eysenck

Hans Jürgen Eysenck was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the most frequently cited living psychologist in peer-reviewed scientific journal literature.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Hans Eysenck

The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Correlation

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“Modern education does no favour to the children it is supposed to teach when it de-emphasizes facts; although facts are not the…

Children

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“What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by…

Ignorance

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“what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.”

Freud

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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that…

Business

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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be…

Failure

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Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody…

Dangerous

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“The social problems that arise, arise from the facts, not our investigation of these facts.”

Research

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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Faith

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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If…

Belief

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It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate,…

Anomalies

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“the American Government is in fact enforcing a system of employment on the universities under which they are required, under pain of…

American government

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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of…

Conclusions

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If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to…

Argument

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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Felt

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Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

Friendship

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They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two…

Illness

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“Nothing succeeds like success; children who opt out of school have had a continued record of failure, and it would be difficult…

Children

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“It would be very peculiar if a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve…

Intelligence

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There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Correlation

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