In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

Can't we all just play nicely and leave the playground the way we found it, clean and safe?

I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.

We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.

My heart's desire is to find more opportunities to give myself away and teach my children the joy of service at the same time.

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of note for the really excellent things which are promised