Hans Eysenck Quotes

Germany, Psychologist
March 4, 1916 – September, 4, 1997.

Hans Jürgen Eysenck, PhD, DSc (4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born English psychologist who spent his professional career in Great Britain. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked in a wide range of areas within psychology.

Also known as University Teacher

In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

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- Possible
- Prove
- Recovery
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.

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- Group
- Illness
- Improve

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.

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- Together
- Failure
- Finish
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

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- More
- Recovery
- Rate
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

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- World
- Truth
- Always
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.

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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

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- Truth
- Bad
- Beliefs
Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

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Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

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The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

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