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Psychoanalysis Quotes by Thomas Szasz
- Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.
- The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the…
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- My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not… — Sigmund Freud