Karl A. Menninger
Karl A. Menninger
Karl Augustus Menningerwas an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth22 July 1893
CountryUnited States of America
Karl A. Menninger quotes about
fear voice ignored
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear.
fear wish overcoming-failure
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
believe committing hard nor reader
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
What is done to children, they will do to society.
europe america optimism
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
psychology understanding different
Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.
love children hate
We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.
illegal-things envy wish
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
wish-to-die giving hatred
TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.
suicide weapons normal
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
mean instinct know-thyself
To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
war games play
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms
love fall doe
One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
guy police bad-guys
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.