Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him. Karl A. Menninger More Quotes by Karl A. Menninger More Quotes From Karl A. Menninger We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy. Karl A. Menninger hate love children Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law. Karl A. Menninger brother law mean It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift. Karl A. Menninger optimism europe america Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health. Karl A. Menninger psychology technique understanding Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. Karl A. Menninger honestly inspirational reality [on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear. Karl A. Menninger ignored voice fear We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. Karl A. Menninger illegal-things envy wish Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms Karl A. Menninger games play war TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING. Karl A. Menninger wish-to-die giving life Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. Karl A. Menninger normal weapons suicide Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys. Karl A. Menninger bad-guys police guy Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. Karl A. Menninger passion joy life The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. Karl A. Menninger intelligence anger hate fear Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. Karl A. Menninger suicide doubt sometimes believe
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