"Psychology...is a science, not a sort of Savonarola. It cannot reform people against their wills. It can only provide a better method of mixing the human ingredients presented to it. As it is a social science it must depend as much upon the patient's willingness to be cured, as upon the physician's skill in curing. There is neither force nor magic in psychiatry."
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Novelists from EnglandShort story writers from EnglandWomen authors from EnglandWomen born in the 1880sPeople from Kent
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Phyllis Bottome
Phyllis Forbes Dennis (née Bottome; 31 May 1884 – 22 August 1963) was a British novelist and short story writer.
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