More Important Than Innate Disposition, Objective Experience,

We Must Never Neglect The Patient's Own Use Of His Symptoms.

We Are Not Determined By Our Experiences, But Are Self-determined By The Meaning We Give To Them; And When We Take Particular Experiences As The Basis For Our Future Life, We Are Almost Certain To Be Misguided To Some Degree. Meanings Are Not Determined By Situations. We Determine Ourselves By The Meanings We Ascribe To Situations.

In This Case, The Neurotic Resembles A Human Being Who Looks Up To God, Commends Himself To His Ways, And Then Religiously Awaits How The Lord Will Guide Him; He Is Nailed To The Cross Of His Fiction.

Tears And Complaints - The Means Which I Have Called Water Power - Can Be An Extremely Useful Weapon For Disturbing Cooperation And Reducing Other To A Condition Of Slavery.

To See With The Eyes Of Another, To Hear With The Ears Of Another, To Feel With The Heart Of Another. For The Time Being, This Seems To Me An Admissible Definition Of What We Call Social Feeling.