“Almost all analysts in America are physicians and psychiatrists, and the medical profession is layered into a strict hierarchy. Every psychiatrist in a hospital is chief of some service, or head of some department.”

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Source: Final Analysis (1990), p. 145

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