"The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with ho..."
- Karl Menninger
"The very word, “sin,” which seems to have disappeared, was once a proud word. It was once a strong word, an ominous and serious word. … But the word went away. It has almost disappeared — the word, al..."
"Fears are educated into us and can if we wish be educated out."
- Dr. Karl Menninger
"Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law."
"Generous people are rarely mentally ill people."
"What's done to children they will do to society."
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to it creates us makes..."
"Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse."
"Hope is an adventure a going forward a confident search for a rewarding life."
"It is this intangible thing love in many forms which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals which comforts and restores which works what we ha..."