Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use … - Thomas Szasz

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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

Thomas Szasz

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

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