#mental

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#hence #illness #mental #mental illness #psychotherapy

In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#created #in the past #men #mental #now

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. ↗

— James Taylor

#i #music #self-absorbed #sentimental #think

Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath. ↗

— David Thewlis

#any #anyone #best #breath #get

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#art #away #elemental #ephemeral #forbidden

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#down #feel #i #i feel #i feel like

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#before #eating #getting #go #going

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#athlete #competition #done #even #good