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Psychiatry:
"myself and by the age of 32 I had changed my whole life pattern. . . and at that time I reviewed very truthfully my relationships with my family–particularly my mother–in such a way that I would be able to be very fair to her and to bring out whatever the truth really was. And this is a very important part of doing my own thinking. Whether I did or did not follow the practice of psychoanalysis according to the various theories, I did have some kind of an experience all right–enough to have had an experience that made me think about other human beings and their problems. . . and I certainly think that I got myself into that much of a cul de sac in life that I had to start very fresh and do my own thinking.
“I had been brought up in an era that was no longer operative, where the older people were utterly convinced that the younger people’s thinking was completely unreliable. . . that it was something that did not firm up until they were 30 or so. And all the younger people were continually being told by the older people: ‘Never mind what you think! Listen, we’re trying to teach you.’ And we were taught to get over our sensitivity and to give up all the things that seemed”
