As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. Sri Aurobindo
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Psychotherapy is a neglected branch of medicine. The patient is the object of all the arts of the healer. He is lied to, seduced, swindled, bribed, flattered and bullied. With equal ease he may be cured or killed.

Source: Integral Yoga: Teaching And Method Of Practice

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