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Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient’s condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

Violent behavior exists in one’s psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Stuff that’s hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don’t know what it does.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient’s ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.