A Doctor (n.) caught in the transference becomes an obstacle he cannot argue away: telling the patient "I am not a sinister magician" leaves her cold — she knows that as well as he does.
The Doctor (n.) has an urgent case while the theologians wrangle over which revealed truth is true; he must seize whatever is alive for the patient.
A Doctor (n.) is concerned with the sick, not the cured: if a patient finds meaning inside an existing creed, even a political one, that should be enough for him.
A Doctor (n.) and intellectual, one and all, are bad nurses and educators — which is why they prefer Freud, while clergy and teachers prefer Adler.
A Doctor (n.) becomes, in analysis, a figure in the patient's history: because he too extracts the intimate secrets, he is charged with the power of those who once did.
A Doctor (n.) facing the patient's disorientation must hold fast to his own orientation — with symbolic, not merely intellectual, ideas, since scientific terminology has not the slightest affinity with the unconscious.
The Doctor (n.) answers first to the individual and only second to society, for collective influences usually produce mere mass intoxication, and only man's action upon man brings real transformation.