I often feel caught in a dilemma: on the one hand I wish to be more natural with you and yet, on the other hand, because I feel that you’re easily wounded and that you give my comments inordinate powe...
I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy—I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good ther...
I believe technique is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist's unique encounter with the patient. [E]very course of therapy consists of small and large spontaneously generated responses or...
Heidegger spoke of two modes of existence: the everyday mode and the ontological mode. In the everyday mode we are consumed with and distracted by material surroundings - we are filled with wonderment...
He was saying, fulfill yourself, realize your potential, live boldly and fully. Then, and only then, die without regret.
He knew what to say to whiners: find a way to turn you gaze outward, stretch beyond yourself.
He is civilized, polite, a man of manners. He has tamed his wild nature, turned his wolf into a spaniel. And he calls this moderation. Its real name is mediocrity!
Friendship between therapist and patients is a necessary condition in the process of therapy - necessary, but not, however, sufficient. Psychotherapy is not a substitute for life but a dress rehearsal...
For one can never really be helped by another; one must find the strength to help oneself.
Existential isolation, a third given, refers to the unbridgeable gap between self and others, a gap that exists even in the presence of deeply gratifying interpersonal relationships. One is isolated n...
But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years stretched out before me. And the view doesn’t please me. I see only aging, diminishment, fathe...
Belki de konformizm kavramının Yahudileri çok kısıtlamış olmasındandır; kendilerinin dışındaki kaynaklardan gelen zulüm bir halkı öylesine kaynaştırır ki bir tek bireyi bile bunu kırıp çıkamaz.
At other times Betty expressed anger at my forcing her to think about morbid topics. Why think about death? We can’t do anything about it! I tried to help her understand that, though the fact of death...
Asa-zisa „psihologie pentru mase bate intr-una moneda pe „asumarea responsabilitatii, dar nu sunt decat vorbe goale: este extraordinar de greu, ba chiar terifiant, sa accepti ideea ca tu si numai tu e...
As long as he denies his own agency, real change is unlikely because his attention will be directed toward changing his environment rather than himself.
All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the t...
A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves...
Вие искате да летите, но не можете да започнете летеното с летене. Първо трябва да ви науча да вървите, а първата стъпка ще направите, като разберете, че този, който не се подчинява на себе си, се под...
İnsanın bütün eylemleri kendisine yöneliktir, bütün hizmetleri kendine hizmettir, bütün sevgisi kendini sevmesindendir. Bu yorum sizi şaşırttı mı? Belki de sevdiğiniz insanları düşünmektesininiz. Ama...
Това съжаление все още не го проумявам. Ако бяхте приели, по какъв начин това щеше да ви промени?- Да ме промени ли? Какво общо има промяната с това? Това беше уникална възможност – такава, каквато ня...