We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund FreudAbout author
- Author's profession: Psychologist, Scientist
- Nationality: austrian
- Born: May 6, 1856
- Died: September 23, 1939
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