Is that a real quotation or just a paraphrase?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yesterday I was looking at a post on the Gem State Patriot News blog on December 14, 2025 by retired surgeon Dr. John Livingston which is titled The Seed We Choose to Grow.

 

His seventh paragraph states that:

 

“A recent Psychology Today article offers a more secular explanation; put plainly: ‘Self-hatred often leads to outward hate. People who loathe themselves frequently project that inner contempt onto others, seeing them through a lens of criticism and disdain. The result is a harmful feedback look, where internal struggles manifest as hostility, and hostility in turn deepens the internal turmoil. Hate becomes both the symptom and the fuel.’ “

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But he does not provide a link to that article, or say who wrote it, or when it was published in that magazine, or what the title was. I tried Google searching for some of the sentences in his ‘quote’ and came up empty. My conclusion is that he instead just is paraphrasing from who knows where.

 

I previously wrote about John in a post on October 22, 2024 titled How not to write a blog post (or speech) using a quotation. He is so careless a writer that you never can rely on the contents of his blog posts.