Too often, we therapists neglect our personal relationships. Our work becomes our life.
Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we’re not animal trainers! Yes,
This world is supposed to have been made by a God? No, much better by a devil!
This encounter, the very heart of psychotherapy, is a caring, deeply human meeting between two people, one (generally, but not always, the patient) more troubled than the other. Therapists have a dual...
The same point is made by the Hasidic Rabbi, Susya, who shortly before his death said, When I get to heaven they will not ask me, 'Why were you not Moses?' Instead they will ask 'Why were you not Susy...
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly...
That was the first important discovery I made about Betty: she was desperately isolated, and she survived this isolation only by virtue of the sustaining myth that her intimate life was being lived el...
Sometimes death anxiety is dismissed as trivial in its universality. Who, after all, does not know and fear death? Yet it is one thing to know about death in general, to grit one's own teeth and stoke...
Some said living with cancer had made them wiser, more self-realized, while others had reordered their priorities in life, grown stronger, learned to say no to activities they no longer valued and yes...
Some believe in the merits of the enterprise and devote their careers to ever greater nosological precision. Others, and among them I include myself, marvel that anyone can take diagnosis seriously, t...
Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)
Oamenii ii plac pe cei carora le pasa de ei.
No rose without a thorn. But many a thorn without a rose.
I have no intention to get married because it would only cause me worries. And why would that be the case? I would be jealous, because my wife would cheat on me. Why are you so sure of that? Because I...
I have heard many dying patients remark that the most awful thing about dying is that it must be done alone. Yet, even at the point of death, the willingness of another to be fully present may penetra...
Herkes aynı yemeği yemekten bıkar. Her güzel kadının olduğu yerde, bir de onu düzmekten bıkmış zavallı bir erkek vardır!
Excessive attachment either to material goods, to other individuals, or even attachment to the concept of ‘I’ is the major source of human suffering. And doesn’t it follow that such suffering can be a...
یه مرد خوش قیافه فقیر با 1دلار و 50سنت برات یه کاپوچینو می خره.
چطور می توان مردی را به چنگ آورد؟سئله ساده ایه، فقط باید به چشمان یک مرد خیره شد و چند ثانیه صبر کرد. همین!
همزیستیِ آیین ها و ذهن مستدلِ هشیار امکان پذیر نیست. این دو هم ستیزهایی سخت هستند