[T]he harvest of psychotherapy is not cure - surely, in our field, that is an illusion - but instead change or growth.
[E]xplanation and clarification function as effective therapeutic agents in their own right. Human beings have always abhorred uncertainty and through the ages have sought to order the universe by pro...
You say that imperishable happiness lies elsewhere. Tell me about this ‘elsewhere.’ I only know that it does not lie in perishable objects. It lies not outside but within. It is the mind that determin...
Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway.
We need art, Nietzsche said, lest we perish from the truth.
We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom.
Ubijeđen sam da su, u tim zanosima prvih susreta, Dan i žena pogrešno tumačili ono što u vidjeli jedno u drugom. Svako od njih je vidjeo odraz sopstvenog preklinjanja, ranjen pogled i pogrešno ga prot...
To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
Though we try hard to go through life two by two or in groups, there are times, especially when death approaches, that the truth—that we are born alone and must die alone—breaks through with chilling...
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
The second, alternatives exclude, is an important key to understanding why decision is difficult. Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating...
The most common secret is a deep conviction of basic inadequacy - a feeling that one is basically incompetent, that one bluffs one's way through life. Next in frequency is a deep sense of interpersona...
The flower replied: You fool! Do you imagine I blossom in order to be seen? I blossom for my own sake because it pleases me, and not for the sake of others. My joy consists in my being and my blossomi...
Sorun bakalım, kimler daha emniyette, kimler daha rahat, kimler sonsuza dek mutludur? Ben size yanıtı söyleyeyim: Yalnızca sığ zihinli olanlar, yani sıradan insanlar ve çocuklar!
Some cannot loosen their own chains yet can nonetheless liberate their friends. —Nietzsche
Simtindu-ne neajutorati si derutati in fata aleatorului, a evenimentelor fara nici un tipar aparent, cautam sa le ordonam si, prin aceasta, sa avem senzatia ca le controlam. Chiar mai important decat...
Si indrazneala cu care Nietzsche rostea lucrurile! Incredibil! Sa spui ca speranta e cel mai mare rau! Ca Dumnezeu a murit! Ca adevarul este o greseala fara de care nu putem trai! Ca dusmanii adevarul...
She was a rigid training analyst in a rigid institute that valued interpretation as the singular effective action of the analyst. Of her thoughtful, dense, and carefully worded interpretations, I reme...
She may have played her role, but you, what role did you play? Were you, and I, so different from her? Did you see her? Or did you, instead, see only prey--a disciple, a plowland for your thoughts, a...
Perhaps, said Nietzsche, only by being a man does a man release the woman in woman.