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Hans Eysenck
German
Psychologist
About the author
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
Hans Eysenck,
German
Psychologist
#Will
#Years
#Illness
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
Hans Eysenck,
German
Psychologist
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
Hans Eysenck,
German
Psychologist
#Diplomacy
#Science
#Business
#Facts
#Politics
#Tact
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
Hans Eysenck,
German
Psychologist
#Failure
#Treatment
#Results
In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
Hans Eysenck,
German
Psychologist
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
Hans Eysenck,
German
Psychologist
#World
#Truth
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
Hans Eysenck,
German
Psychologist
#Truth
#Beliefs