What's Done To Children, They Will Do

Neurotic Means He Is Not As Sensible As I Am, And Psychotic Means He's Even Worse Than My Brother-in-law.

We Have Come To See That Just As The Child Must Learn To Love Wisely, So He Must Learn To Hate Expeditiously, To Turn Destructive Tendencies Away From Himself Toward Enemies That Actually Threaten Him Rather Than Toward The Friendly And The Defenseless, The More Usual Victims Of Destructive Energy.

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.

What The Teacher Is, Is More Important Than What He Teaches.

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.