Word: analysist
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Psychoanalysis is far superior to the old dynamic psychology, by which a man was able to bolster up his courage, but once defeated, was almost irreparably broken. By what Freud calls the 'transfer of the libido' psychoanalysis removes all cause of troubles and pushes on arrested development. The European analysist never tells his patient anything, the American practioner tries to be very friendly with the patient. Self-analysis is perfectly possible but leads to introspection and the disease called 'thinking...
...worst enemy. His imagination pictures terrors which become just as real as actual obstacles in the course of time. Habit is never so strong that the psychoanalyst cannot overcome it. The Duke of Wellington said 'habit was ten times as strong as nature' but an analysist only needs a little more time to untangle personalities schooled and cemented in the wrong outlook...
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