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it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force not magic in psychiatry.
Phyllis Bottome
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Phyllis Bottome
Age: 81 †
Born: 1882
Born: May 31
Died: 1963
Died: August 22
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Phyllis Forbes Dennis
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