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Depression, like anxiety, is the natural biological consequence of experience. Anxiety comes from a sense of threat. Depression comes from a sense of defeat.

— Fredric Schiffer Of Two Minds (1999)

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The troubled mind is "crazy" only if we expect to encounter the mind of a mature adult.

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By stimulating one brain hemisphere at a time, I can talk with the two personalities within one person, and this greatly facilitates the aims of Dual-Brain Psychology.

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Freud emphasized an internal, mentally primitive structure, whereas I saw an immature, conscious person.

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I don't believe that a psychotic disorder is entirely different from an anxiety disorder, a depressive disorder, or a posttraumatic stress disorder. In all cases, psychological problems stem from traumas that lead first to a sense of anxiety and then to defeat.

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Dual-brain therapy entails a reaching out to the mind of the troubled hemisphere, attempting through patience, persistence, and a loving, mature, and informed attitude to teach it that it no longer has to fear abuse or protect itself with the archaic defenses that have become the source of new pain and problems.

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