What are you?
I am advocating a return to excitation, because psychology deals not with the brain but with the heart. Thought is the smoke-screen of emotions. We are honest with ourselves and with society when we follow our feelings. Excitation is better than inhibition, because freedom is better than slavery.
People tell me what they think, but this does not concern me very much. I want to know what they did, because it is what they do that gets them into trouble, and what they will do that gets them out of it. To change the way a person feels and thinks about himself, we must change the way he acts toward others; and by constantly treating inhibition, we will be constantly getting at the roots of his problem.
- Andrew Salter "Conditioned reflex therapy".
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