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

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

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

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