What people really need and demand from life is not wealth, comfort, or esteem, but games worth playing

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

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