We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Before operating on a patient's brain... I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
While all doctors treat diseases, neurosurgeons' work is the crucible of identity. Every operation on the brain is, by necessity, a manipulation of the substance of our selves.
When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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