“No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.”

—  Eric Berne

Quoted in a review of Berne's book Sex in Human Loving (1963), "Talks on Sex by the Gamesman" http://books.google.com/books?id=jVMEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=RA1-PA16&dq=LIFE%20Dec%2018%2C%201970&pg=RA1-PA7#v=onepage&q=berne&f=false by David Reuben, M.D., Life, Vol. 69, No. 25, 18 December 1970.

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