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Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

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We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay...

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

Loss means losing what was we want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

I'm cautious about a lot of words.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

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