[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.
Interpretation
Collaboration with diverse perspectives is essential for scientific progress.
Abraham Maslow emphasizes the importance of embracing young psychoanalysts as collaborators rather than viewing them with contempt or suspicion. By fostering an inclusive and open-minded environment, the field of psychoanalysis can grow and evolve, avoiding the pitfalls of dogmatism that can stifle scientific advancement.
In practice
In a conference about psychoanalysis, one might say, 'As Maslow urged, we should collaborate with young analysts as colleagues to strengthen our field.'
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.
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What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.
The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
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