Karl A. Menninger
Karl A. Menninger
Karl Augustus Menningerwas an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth22 July 1893
CountryUnited States of America
europe america optimism
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
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Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.
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We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
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TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
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Attitudes are much more important than facts.
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The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.
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Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.
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It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.
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Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.