- Ibid., pp. 1012–1013.
- Ibid., p. 1013.
- Ibid.
- Rand, A. The Virtue of Selfishness. New York: New American Library, 1964, p. 13.
- Rand, A. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1957, p. 1012.
- Ibid., p. 1013.
- Ibid., p. 1014.
- Ibid., p. 1018.
- Ibid., p. 1016.
- As to practitioners who subscribe to the Objectivist ethics and use it in their work, it is my observation that
certain of them (by no means all) are unfortunately prone to moralistic pedantry in communications with their
patients, and exhibit a tendency to treat their patients' inappropriate behavior not as an offense against the patients'
own life and happiness, but, in effect, as an offense against an abstraction called "morality." Because of my long-
standing association with Objectivism, I feel obliged to stress my unreserved opposition to this policy. It is entirely
incompatible with the nature and spirit of the Objectivist ethics, and represents a residue of an older, religious way
of thinking about morality. - Among the better works on clinical hypnosis, I would recommend: Milton H. Erickson, Advanced Techniques
of Hypnosis and Therapy, Jay Haley (ed.) (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1967); Erickson, Herschman, and
Secter, The Practical Application of Medical and Dental Hypnosis (New York: Julian Press, 1961); Lewis
Wolberg, Medical Hypnosis (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1948); Andre M. Weitzenhoffer, General Techniques
of Hypnotism (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1957); William S. Kroger, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
(Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1963);Jerome M. Schneck, Hypnosis in Modern Medicine (Springfield, Ill.:
Charles C. Thomas, 1953); Dave Elman, Findings in Hypnosis (Clifton, NJ.: Dave Elman, 1964). Not one of these
authors, of course, is in full agreement with any other, nor am I in full agreement with any of them. But their books
contain material of major value.
Epilogue
- For a critique of other definitions, see Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (New York: Bantam
Books, 1995), pp. 305–308.