Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
GORDON ALLPORT
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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