Attitudes Are Much More Important Than Facts.

Our Lives Are Shaped By Those Who Love Us As Well As Those Who Refuse To Love Us.

One Does Not Fall In Love; One Grows Into Love, And Love Grows In Him.

The Voice Of The Intelligence Is Soft And Weak, Said Freud. It Is Drowned Out By The Roar Of Fear. It Is Ignored By The Voice Of Desire. It Is Contradicted By The Voice Of Shame. It Is Hissed Away By Hate, And Extinguished By Anger. Most Of All It Is Silenced By Ignorance.

When A Trout Rising To A Fly Gets Hoooked On A Line And Finds Himself Unable To Swim About Freeely, He Begins With A Fight Which Results In Struggles And Splashes And Sometimes An Escape. Often, Of Course, The Situation Is Too Tough For Him. In The Same Way The Human Being Struggles With His Environment And With The Hooks That Catch Him. Sometimes He Masters His Difficulties; Sometimes They Are Too Much For Him. His Struggles Are All That The World Sees And It Naturally Misunderstands Them. It Is Hard For A Free Fish To Understand What Is Happening To A Hooked One.

Psychoanalysis Has Changed American Psychology From A Diagnostic To A Therapeutic Science, Not Because So Many Patients Are Cured By The Psychoanalytic Technique, But Because Of The New Understanding Of Psychiatric Patients It Has Given Us, And The New And Different Concept Of Illness And Health.