The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. (Thomas Szasz)

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

Thomas Szasz

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