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Curing a disorder that blocks good choices does not by itself give the power to make them

Drawn from what Mortimer Adler said

SubjectPsychotherapy
What this subject means

Psychotherapy Treatment by conversation between a therapist and a patient, and the arguments about what in it actually does the work.

What Mortimer Adler actually said

  1. Mortimer Adler American philosopher and educator (1902 to 2001)
    But when the medical problem is solved the moral problem remains. The removal by therapy of an incapacitation for making the right choices does not automatically confer the power of making them.

    Where this was said

    ↗Why Strength of Character Is Needed to Lead a Good Life (from The Time of Our Lives, 1970; The Great Ideas Online no. 40)thegreatideas.org

    c. 1970

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