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• The psychiatrist likewise is prone to call a patient “confused” when he would do well to recognize the projection and admit his own confusion, for it is really his understanding that grows confused in face of the patient’s strange behaviour.
• Understanding is clearly a subjective process.
• It is relatively unimportant whether the doctor understands or not, but everything hangs on the patient’s doing so.
• We appeal only to the patient’s brain if we try to inculcate a truth; but if we help him to grow up to this truth in the course of his own development, we have reached his heart, and this appeal goes deeper and acts with greater force.
• In itself suggestion is not to be despised, but it has serious limitations, and reacts upon the patient’s independence of character in a very undesirable way.