Treatment Quotes - Page 39

• You may cure yourself of a depression by forcing yourself to perform, in rapid order and with excruciating concentration, half a dozen or so unpleasant chores, especially if they have long been postponed. This is a kind of homeopathic purgative, a treatment of like with like.

  Robert Grudin

  Order, Long, Half

  Robert Grudin (1982). “Time and the art of living”, Harpercollins

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• The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

  Bill Gates

  Law, Names, Government

  Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.

  Sigmund Freud

  Real, Break Through, Effort

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Character, Neurosis

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

  Jerome Frank

  Doe, Spirit, Illness

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• Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, Labor Day, Together

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• The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

  Ray Manzarek

  Inspirational, Life, Grandchildren

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• We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

  Immanuel Kant

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "True animal instinct", www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2005.

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• Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.

  Alan Moore

  Lying, Men, Simple

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• While law-abiding Muslims are forced to hide in their homes, and animal-rights activists are labeled as terrorists for undercover filming of abusive treatment at factory farms, right-wing hate groups are free to organize, parade, arm themselves to the hilt and murder with chilling regularity. It’s time for our society to confront this very real threat.

  Amy Goodman

  Hate, Real, Home

  FaceBook post by Amy Goodman from Apr 17, 2014

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• Unless we put medical freedom into the constitution the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship and force people who wish doctors and treatment of their own choice to submit to only what the dictating outfit offers.

  Benjamin

  Doctors, Medicine, People

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