Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Autonomy... is freedom to develop one's self - to increase one's knowledge, improve one's skills, and achieve responsibility for one's conduct. And it is freedom to lead one's own life, to choose among alternative courses of action so long as no injury to others results.