Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another. (Sigmund Freud)

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Sigmund Freud

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