Our patients are the ones who express and live out the subconscious and unconscious tendencies in the culture. The neurotic, or person suffering from what we now call character disorder, is characterized by the fact that the usual defenses of the culture do not work for him--a generally painful situation of which he is more or less aware...

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized--and it may explode into violence.

Both artists and neurotics speak and live from the subconscious and unconscious depths of their society. The artist does this positively, communicating what he…

Now it is no longer a matter of deciding what to do, but of deciding how to decide.

'...in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them . . . .' (p. 3)

Used to be being crazy meant something. Nowadays, everybody's crazy

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.