Milton Sapirstein Quotes

United States, Psychiatrist
1914 – November, 28, 1996.

Milton R. Sapirstein was a clinical psychiatrist who studied, lectured, and wrote about the connections between neurobiology and psychoanalytical concepts. He was emeritus clinical professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City for nearly 50 years.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton Sapirstein
- Marriage
- Fiction
- Ideals
Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

Milton Sapirstein

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

Milton Sapirstein
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

Milton Sapirstein
It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Milton Sapirstein
Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

Milton Sapirstein
- Society
- Parent
- Members
Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

Milton Sapirstein