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In Uncommon Therapy, Jay Haley

Therapeutic Metaphors, by David Gordon

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

One evening I asked whether he [Rivers] thought I was suffering from shell-shock. 'Certainly not,' he replied. 'What have I got then?' 'Well, you appear to be suffering from an anti-war complex.

To him, as to me, the War was inevitable and justifiable. Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The creative writer acts no differently from the child at play: he creates a fantasy world, which he takes very seriously; that is to say, he invests large amounts of emotion in it, while marking it off sharply from reality.

The new psychoanalytic method [is]… somewhat subtle but irreplaceable, so fruitful has it proved to be in explaining obscure unconscious mental processes.

Before the problem of the creative writer, analysis must lay down its arms.

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

In the depths of my heart I can't help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Corson wrote from Chicago that while he had never heard Hitler speak, he had read the speeches, and he seemed

Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said.

a shallow embankment. It was upright but canted

Clearly, under all the success and the radiance and the easy charisma, there were rumblings of a deeper discontent.

the book typographer's job was building a window between the reader inside a room and that landscape which is the author's words. He may put up a stained glass window of marvelous beauty, but a failure as a window; that is he may use some rich superb type like text gothic that is something to be look at, not through.

Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon

On his death even The Times remarked that, 'never was an individual less regretted by his fellow creatures than this deceased king'.

There is no evidence that having been a good player (or being white and of conservative appearance) is an advantage for a soccer manager.

Had Don Quixote been simply and plainly mad, or had he indulged in a protracted game of self-deception and play-acting, we should not be talking of him now, Van Doren observes—"We are talking of him because we suspect that, in the end, he did become a knight.

You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement?

Madness is when all your nightmares have come true and you just don't care anymore.

I want a gun, Happy said immediately. "A really big gun. I want a fully functioning Death Star gun." "Not even if Godzilla himself were to show up," said JC.

CHAPTER SIX Dangerous Lab Interns