The Friends Who Listen To Us Are

Unrest Of Spirit Is A Mark Of Life.

People Repeat In Adult Life Emotions They Experience In Childhood. Many Of The People Whom I Spent The Last 30 Or 40 Years Treating At So Much Per Minute Wouldn't Have Needed Any Treatment At All If They Had Had The Right Care As Children.

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.

Fears Are Educated Into Us, And Can, If We Wish, Be Educated Out.

It Was His Optimism That Freud Bequeathed To America And It Was The Optimism Of Our Youthfulness, Our Freedom From The Sterner, Sadder Tradition Of Europe Which Enabled Us To Seize His Gift.