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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Thomas Szasz

Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), U.S. psychiatrist. "Mental Illness," The Second Sin (1973).

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