Brock Chisholm on Psychotherapy and Rational Thinking

„The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.“

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Brock Chisholm was an internationally renowned Canadian psychiatrist and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1948 to 1953.

A historical quotation by Brock Chisholm on psychotherapy, moral concepts, and rational, independent thinking.


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Brock Chisholm quote about psychotherapy, rational thinking, and moral beliefs

Brock Chisholm (1896–1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist and pediatrician. He played a leading role in the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) and served as its first director-general from 1948 to 1953. Chisholm was a strong advocate for global health, peace, and international cooperation.

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"...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely." Brock Chisholm
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"What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy." Brock Chisholm
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"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are." Brock Chisholm
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"Society, and the family as its psycho social agent, has to solve a difficult problem: How to break a person's will without his being aware of it? Yet by a complicated process of indoctrination, rewards, punishments, and fitting ideology, it solves this task by and large so well that most people believe they are following their own will and are unaware that their will itself is conditioned and manipulated." Erich Fromm
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