American Psychiatrist Quotes

It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way...

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.

William C. Menninger
William C. Menninger
The hospital that feeds you refined sugar, white bread, canned soup, bouillon cubes, and frozen vegetables should be closed by the health department as a menace to the public health.

Adolescents who are absorbing negative messages about who they are and what is expected of them may sink to that level instead of realizing their true potential. As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote, Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.

The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.