I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.