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It is time that the medical and teaching profession should realize that functional neurosis is not congenital, not inborn, not hereditary, but is the result of a defective, fear-inspiring education in early child life.

— Boris Sidis Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)

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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, — the fear instinct.

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Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

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The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

Multiple Personality: an Experimental Investigation into Human Individuality (1904)

Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.

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