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Quote by Sigmund Freud
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, e

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. – Sigmund Freud

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I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious. – Sigmund Freud

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Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. – Sigmund Freud

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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. – Sigmund Freud

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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient? – Marcel Proust

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There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. – R. D. Laing

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Much of what is labeled mental illness simply reflects our – George Vaillant

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