The Friends Who Listen To Us Are

We Need Criminals To Identify Ourselves With, To Secretly Envy And To Stoutly Punish. They Do For Us The Forbidden, Illegal Things We Wish To Do.

Unrest Of Spirit Is A Mark Of Life.

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

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.

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.