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"I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years."
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"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."
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"I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years."
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"Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand."
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"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."
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"There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational."
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"For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency."
Religion

"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse."
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"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."
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"Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world."
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"People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change."
Change

"I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years."
Psychoanalysis

"I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them."
People

"I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public."
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"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human."
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