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'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.

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Thomas Szasz
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: April 15
Died: 2012
Died: September 8
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The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
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If you talk to God, you are praying If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
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The wise treat self-respect as non-negotiable, and will not trade it for health or wealth or anything else.
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Marriages are said to be made in Heaven, which may be why they don't work here on Earth.
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Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality engagement a BA marriage an MA and children a Ph.D.
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The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
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