Hans Eysenck Quotes

German - Psychologist March 4, 1916 - September 4, 1997

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. Hans Eysenck

Truth, World, Always, Only, Owes, He

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. Hans Eysenck

Recovery, More, Psychotherapy, Between

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. Hans Eysenck

Group, Years, Will, Two, Within, Improve

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

Truth, Bad, Beliefs, Deeply, Too, Held

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. Hans Eysenck

Business, Science, Politics, Facts, Only

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. Hans Eysenck

Failure, Together, Finish, Results, Who

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

Data, Recovery, Possible, Prove, Fail

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