An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.

Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

Participate in your own dreams, don’t just say what you want or complain about what you don’t have.

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.

And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living

Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.