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are you see in yourself as a result of doing free associations and analysis of your dreams and then you realize what vast possibilities other human beings must have, and you also see patterns of behavior more clearly. It doesn't by any means solve all problems but it certainly helps you enormously and sometimes it's crucial in people's lives.

Q:

On a very practical level, has it enabled you to deal more effectively with people in Washington, say?

Lasker:

That's right, there's no doubt that it has. It has. I don't think I could have had the stamina or the persistence that I was able to summon if it hadn't been for what little psychiatric insight I've had.

Q:

Then it's really a part of your success story in terms of medical research.

Lasker:

Yes, it really is. I think in one very crucial spot it helped me profoundly to at least go forward without hostility toward people whom I otherwise would have felt very hostile to because of their lack of insight into what they were doing and dislike because of their poor behavior. Well, I forgave them and we got along very well and they did extraordinary things, because I forgave them to myself and therefore could work with them.





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