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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

Sigmund Freud
Doctors, Mirrors, Opaque
Sigmund Freud, E. James Lieberman, Robert Kramer, Dr Gregory C Richter (2012). “The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis”, p.153, JHU Press
The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.