Quotes by Szasz, Thomas

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were a >>

Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely thr >>

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. >>

Quotations about Psychoanalysis

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us co >>

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, m >>

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications >>

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

Szasz, Thomas