Reading these books. Oh, the endless labor of the intellectual—pouring all this knowledge into the brain through a three-millimeter aperture in the iris.
Keep in mind that therapy is a deep and comprehensive exploration into the course and meaning of one’s life; given the centrality of death in our existence, given that life and death are interdependen...
If we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility—that is, to apprehend how they themselves contribute to their distress.
Every act is not necessarily a message about the relationship.
Another; one must find the strength to help oneself.
A flood of compassion for her and for all his fellow humans who are victims of that freakish twist of evolution that grants self-awareness but not the requisite psychological equipment to deal with th...
[P]sychiatric treatments should be directed toward the correction of interpersonal distortions, thus enabling the individual to lead a more abundant life, to participate collaboratively with others, t...
Yaşamının mercek altına alınmasından gizliden gizliye zevk almayan bir hastayla daha hiç karşılaşmamıştı. Mercek ne kadar büyük gösterirse hasta o kadar çok zevk alırdı. İncelenmekten alınan keyif o k...
Wish gives the warmth, the content, the imagination, the child's play, the freshness, and the richness to will. Will gives the self-direction, the maturity, to wish. Without wish, will loses its life-...
When, at the end of their lives, most men look back they will find that they have lived throughout ad interim. They will be surprised to see that the very thing they allowed to slip by unappreciated a...
What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diag...
We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning. One of our major tasks is to invent a meaning sturdy enough to su...
Trebuie sa ai in tine haos si frenezie pentru a da nastere unei stele care danseaza.
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden.
Thought, in and of itself, has no external consequences-although it may be an indispensable overture to action: one may, for example, plan, rehearse, or muster the resolve for action. Action extends o...
The thoughts haunted him. He hated them: they robbed him of his peace; they were alien, neither possible nor desirable. Still, he welcomed them: the only alternative- banishing Bertha from his mind-se...
The dying man and the sixteen-year-old gazed at each other across the decades.
Surely this sense of betrayal is what Robert Frost had in mind when he wrote: Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee/And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. io
Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old...