Brock Chisholm on Right, Wrong and Psychotherapy

„The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy“

Brock ChisholmBrock Chisholm questions the concepts of right and wrong in relation to the aims of psychotherapy in this thought-provoking quote.
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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.

The quote questions the traditional distinction between right and wrong and invites reflection on the aims of psychotherapy.


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Brock Chisholm quote about right and wrong in psychotherapy

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 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." 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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Brock Chisholm quote about truth, morality, and free thoughtCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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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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Georges I. Gurdjieff quote about differing conceptions of good and evilCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good." Georges I. Gurdjieff
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