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• I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and…
• Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox…
• But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite…
• In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent…
• And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.
• And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half,…
• Sometimes its said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
• I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
• David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil,…
• Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that…
• One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly…
• As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were…

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