Love is not just a passion of spark between two people, there is an infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a giving to, not a falling for, a...
Like you, I have often wondered why fears reign at night. After twenty years of such wondering, I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the stars—always there, but ob...
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other. We take pleasure not only in the growth of our pati...
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I've always regarded therapy more as a calling than a profession, a way of life for people who care about others.
He was persuaded of the reality and significance of human choice; he believed that experiential learning was a far more powerful approach to personal understanding and change than an endeavor resting...
Hard to think of others when you’re feeling trapped, feeling you’re spinning in a vicious circle.
Freedom means that one is responsible for one’s own choices, actions, one’s own life situation. Though
Four major existential concerns—death, meaning in life, isolation, and freedom—play a crucial role in the inner life of every human being and
Decision invariably involves renunciation: for every yes there must be a no, each decision eliminating or killing other options (the root of the word decide means slay, as in homicide or suicide).
Controversy has always existed among psychiatrists and psychologists about the validity of personality diagnosis. Some believe in the merits of the enterprise and devote their careers to ever greater...
Client-therapist disagreement about the goals and tasks of therapy may impair the therapeutic alliance.† This issue is not restricted to group therapy. Client-therapist discrepancies on therapeutic fa...
But perhaps the main reason I was not ground down by Irene’s rage was that I always knew that it masked her profound sadness, despair, and fear.
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Better, Josef, far better, to have the courage to change your convictions. Duty and faithfulness are shams, curtains to hide behind. Self-liberation means a sacred no, even to duty.
Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.
All I can do in one session is to be real, to leap into the patient’s life, to offer observations in the hope that he’ll be able to open doors and explore some new parts of himself in his ongoing ther...
After all, isn’t that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?