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Patient Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from…
- These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can…
- Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
- The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
- We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating…
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- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire
- I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of… — Robert Benchley
- But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They… — Anna Benson
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- We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. — Alfred Adler
- Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his… — Alfred Adler
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- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
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