We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever..

The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how he himself….

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the ….

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions..

Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to n….

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love e….

[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, uniq….

There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the f….

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that….

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that i….

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism..

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting..

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know..

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate..

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them..

What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to lov….

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along..

All of us are much more human than otherwise.