25 phrases by Nise da Silveira for those who like psychiatry

To sail against the current you need rare conditions: a spirit of adventure, courage, perseverance and passion.

It is necessary to be surprised, indignant and infected, only in this way is it possible to change things.

Creativity is the catalyst par excellence of the approximation of opposites. Through it, sensations, emotions, thoughts are led to recognize each other, to associate with each other, and even internal turmoil takes shape.

What heals, fundamentally, is the stimulation of creativity.

Cats are the most beautiful, intelligent and independent beings in the world. This is the reason why men have such a hard time relating to them and have persecuted them indiscriminately since the beginning of time.

What improves service is the affective contact of one person with another. What heals is joy, what heals is the lack of prejudice.

I despise people who think they are superior to animals. Animals have the wisdom of nature.

Because I went through prison, I understand people and animals who are sick, poor, suffering. I identify with them. I feel like one of them.

I’m not much of the past. I’m from the future. Who looks back too much, stays.

Things are not so easily overcome, they are transformed.

The artist and the poet plunge into the unconscious and come back. On the other hand, the crazy person, the mentally ill person, does not have a return ticket. That’s the difference.

Don’t heal too much. People who are too cured are boring. Everyone has a little madness.

My favorite word is freedom. I like the sound of this word.

Only madmen and artists can understand me.

There is beauty in life, there is beauty in everything. Do you see? There is beauty in joy, and even in longing, sadness, suffering and even departure, there is beauty.

A dialogue is stimulating, solitude too.

There is in my temper this fury. When I want something, I insist.

To start studying, you need to start weeding. Weeding intensively. Only after long weeding work will you be able to exchange the rake for a long comb, and run it silky through a woman’s hair.

Creativity is the catalyst par excellence of the approximation of opposites.

Psychic contamination is worse than lice. It passes from one head to another, with incredible speed. And, as you know, everyone has caught lice.

Everyone has a little madness. Fortunately, I’ve never been around very sensible people.

The analysis of a single dream is worthless. It is necessary to follow series of dreams. As it is necessary to follow series of images.

The individual is only complete when he manages to integrate the unconscious and the outside world. In this process, the forces of the unconscious are the main ones.