Heinz Kohut quotes
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“...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.”
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“The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!”
-- Heinz KohutSource : "Olivia Wilde: Hitting It Big". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. May 4, 2011.
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“The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell”
-- Heinz KohutSource : Heinz Kohut (2012). “The Restoration of the Self”, p.144, University of Chicago Press
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“The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all portray the break up of the self and, through the rearrangement and reassemble of the fragments, try to create new structures that possess wholeness, perfection, new meaning.”
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“Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.”
-- Heinz KohutSource : Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.82, University of Chicago Press
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“If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that many times when I believed that I was right and my patients were wrong, it turned out, though often only after a prolonged search, that my rightness was superficial whereas their rightness was profound.”
-- Heinz KohutSource : Heinz Kohut (2009). “How Does Analysis Cure?”, p.93, University of Chicago Press
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”
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Source : August Krogh (1977). “Respiratory adaptations, capillary exchange, and reflex mechanisms: proceedings of the August Krogh Centenary Symposium held in Srinagar, Kashmir (India), October 11-15, 1974”
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