“Most importantly, the very inception of the treatment itself necessarily induces a change in the patient’s conscious attitude to his illness... that he does not listen carefully enough to what he obsessional ideas are saying to him, or does not grasp the real intention of his obsessional impulse.”

“Most importantly, the very inception of the treatment itself necessarily induces a change in the patient’s conscious attitude to his illness... that he does not listen carefully enough to what he obsessional ideas are saying to him, or does not grasp the real intention of his obsessional impulse.”

— Sigmund Freud