“Analytic therapy is thus a form of re-education; Freud specifically called it that. It is re-education so far as it eliminates those symptoms through which the patient has tried, mistakenly, to resolve the contradictions in his life.”

—  Philip Rieff

The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966)

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American sociologist 1922–2006

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