“ One of the things that therapists do if you are suicidal, like a trick, is ask you about the future. They want to know what your plans are. Do you want to be the president? Do you want to be a rock st… Albert Borris
“ Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations an… Swami Dhyan Giten
“ Presence is about how every action can arise from the quality, which we call awareness – the presence of our inner being, the presence of our soul. It is a large difference between working with people… Swami Dhyan Giten
“ Presence is not a question of judging or evaluating a client or a client’s situation. Presence is to see the client’s situation in a positive and creative light with a vision for how the present situa… Swami Dhyan Giten
“ In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence. Swami Dhyan Giten
“ In situations where I feel unclear or I do not know what to say or do, I turn my attention within myself. Then I listen to what my intuition and to what Existence within myself wants in this moment. T… Swami Dhyan Giten
“ Spontaneity in the therapeutic work arises when the therapist can allow creative and authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from the inner being, from the meditative quality within, from th… Swami Dhyan Giten
“ It was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences. John Bowlby
“ Secondary structural dissociation involves one ANP and more than one EP. Examples of secondary structural dissociation are complex PTSD, complex forms of acute stress disorder, complex dissociative am… Elizabeth F. Howell
“ We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us. P.A. Speers
“ The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you’ll find. Stanley Victor Paskavich
“ A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself. Clifford Cohen
“ I consider therapy successful when the family members (or individual clients) have discovered ways to get what they need from their relationships with the people in their lives, so that their relation… Joseph A. Micucci
“ Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again. Abhijit Naskar
“ People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it. Abhijit Naskar
“ As our children turn even five or six degrees away from us, we have to be aware of our fear and our excitement and our hope for them. And as that five or sex degrees turns into ten or twenty degrees,… Daniel Gottlieb
