“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.”
The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966)
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“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
Source: Getting Well https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0787307785 (Health Research Books, 1993), p. 137.

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Nine, Flying and Seeing: New Ways to Learn

Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)