Category: O – R

Rational is all that, all actions and all behavior which furthers the growth and development of a structure. Irrational are all such acts of behavior which slow down or destroy […]

The essence of psychoanalysis can be defined as the discovery of the significance of conflicting tendencies in man, of the power of the „resistance“ to fight against the awareness of […]

Those who announce ideas (…) and at the same time live them we may call prophets. The Old Testament prophets did precisely that: they announced the idea that man had […]

The productive orientation of personality refers to a fundamental attitude, a mode of relatedness in all realms of human experience. It covers physical, mental, emotional, and sensory responses to others, […]

The „pathology of normalcy“ rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned, they lose their individual […]