Mental Health Quotes

"Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent." "Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another." "Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation." "The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three." "The repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it." "The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions." "The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id." "Dreams may be thus stated: They are concealed realizations of repressed desires." "Dream disfigurement, then, turns out in reality to be an act of the censor." "If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends." "A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist." "Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity." "I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point." "Fears are nothing more than a state of mind." "Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." "Love is a serious mental disease." "Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." "Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend." "The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life." "There are three things, to my account, that I need each day One of them is something to look up to, another is something to look forward to, and another is someone to chase."