Reflections from the Couch
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The Paradoxical Theory of Change
Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not… One must first fully experience what one is before recognizing all the alternatives of what may be.
— Arnold Beisser (1970)
The Paradoxical Theory of Change
Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not… One must first fully experience what one is before recognizing all the alternatives of what may be.
— Arnold Beisser (1970)
The Paradoxical Theory of Change
Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not… One must first fully experience what one is before recognizing all the alternatives of what may be.
— Arnold Beisser (1970)
The first distortion of truth in ‘the myth of the analytic situation’ is that analysis is an interaction between a sick person and a healthy one.
— Heinrich Racker (1963)
The first distortion of truth in ‘the myth of the analytic situation’ is that analysis is an interaction between a sick person and a healthy one.
— Heinrich Racker (1963)
The first distortion of truth in ‘the myth of the analytic situation’ is that analysis is an interaction between a sick person and a healthy one.
— Heinrich Racker (1963)
Without the dimension of affection, analysis is a futile and sterile undertaking. Without ‘partaking’ of the patient’s emotions, the analyst is nothing more than a robot-interpreter who would do better in changing his profession before it is too late.
— André Green (1993)
Without the dimension of affection, analysis is a futile and sterile undertaking. Without ‘partaking’ of the patient’s emotions, the analyst is nothing more than a robot-interpreter who would do better in changing his profession before it is too late.
— André Green (1993)
Without the dimension of affection, analysis is a futile and sterile undertaking. Without ‘partaking’ of the patient’s emotions, the analyst is nothing more than a robot-interpreter who would do better in changing his profession before it is too late.
— André Green (1993)
There is nothing quite like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual if you are looking for a convenient device to reduce the complexity and contextuality of experiencing and meaning-making down to two-dimensional caricatures of what is human.
— William J. Coburn (2014)
There is nothing quite like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual if you are looking for a convenient device to reduce the complexity and contextuality of experiencing and meaning-making down to two-dimensional caricatures of what is human.
— William J. Coburn (2014)
There is nothing quite like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual if you are looking for a convenient device to reduce the complexity and contextuality of experiencing and meaning-making down to two-dimensional caricatures of what is human.
— William J. Coburn (2014)
One of the aims of psychoanalytic treatment may be to enable the patient to find, or be able to tolerate, more satisfying obstacles to contend with. Poor obstacles impoverish us.
— Adam Phillips (1993)
One of the aims of psychoanalytic treatment may be to enable the patient to find, or be able to tolerate, more satisfying obstacles to contend with. Poor obstacles impoverish us.
— Adam Phillips (1993)
One of the aims of psychoanalytic treatment may be to enable the patient to find, or be able to tolerate, more satisfying obstacles to contend with. Poor obstacles impoverish us.
— Adam Phillips (1993)
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
It’s the relationship that heals.
— Irvin D. Yalom (2008)
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
It’s the relationship that heals.
— Irvin D. Yalom (2008)
Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
It’s the relationship that heals.
— Irvin D. Yalom (2008)
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (c. 1945)
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (c. 1945)
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay (c. 1945)
Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
— W.S. Merwin (1962)
Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
— W.S. Merwin (1962)
Your absence has gone through me like a thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
— W.S. Merwin (1962)
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude… once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.
— Rainer Maria Rilke (1903)
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude… once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.
— Rainer Maria Rilke (1903)
The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude… once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.
— Rainer Maria Rilke (1903)
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!
— Attributed to Heinz Kohut (c.1970)
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!
— Attributed to Heinz Kohut (c.1970)
The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!
— Attributed to Heinz Kohut (c.1970)
We say ‘inner world’ or ‘outer world,’ but actually there is just one whole world.
— Shunryu Suzuki (1970)
We say ‘inner world’ or ‘outer world,’ but actually there is just one whole world.
— Shunryu Suzuki (1970)
We say ‘inner world’ or ‘outer world,’ but actually there is just one whole world.
— Shunryu Suzuki (1970)