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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
Patient

"Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves."

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Karl Abraham Psychoanalyst
Patient

"When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult."

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Hippocrates Physician
Patient

"I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous."

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Steve-O Actor, Stunt Performer
Patient

"For sure, to be exact, one seventh of my patients never graduated my program."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Patient

"A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
Patient

"Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
Patient

"The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
Patient

"These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can reveal to us things which without them would remain impenetrable."

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