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...
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Rather, love is a way of being, a giving to, not a falling for; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person. Though
Psychotherapy is a demanding vocation, and the successful therapist must be able to tolerate the isolation, anxiety, and frustration that are inevitable in the work.
People say strange, incoherent things in such a state. Her words do not strike me as incoherent or random. You suggested, Doctor Breuer, that I should simply interject any comments that occur to me. L...
Partea intunecata a admiratiei este invidia combinata cu nemultumirea fata de modestia propriei conditii.
One of the great paradoxes of life is that self-awareness breeds anxiety.
One cold winter’s day a number of porcupines huddled together quite closely in order, through their mutual warmth, to prevent themselves from being frozen. But they soon felt the effects of their quil...
Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness—it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present.
Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is 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 mode...
Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them.
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
Life cannot be lived nor can death be faced without anxiety. Anxiety is guide as well as enemy and can point the way to authentic existence. The task of the therapist is to reduce anxiety to comfortab...
Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, every-one in the first half of his time, comes to see the top side, but in the second half, the reverse side. The latter is not so bea...
Kutsal olan hakikat değil, kişinin kendi hakikati için çıktığı arayıştır!
Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly through predictable sta...
In trecut, atunci cand tanjeam dupa compania celorlalti si le ceream ceva ce ei nu voiau si chiar nu puteau sa-mi dea, atunci am cunoscut singuratatea. Am cunoscut-o foarte bine. Sa nu ai nevoie de ni...
In the first place a man never is happy but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal and, when he does it is only to be disappoint...
If you make a mistake, admit it. Any attempt at cover-up will ultimately backfire. At some level the patient will sense you are acting in bad faith, and therapy will suffer. Furthermore, an open admis...