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

- Leston Havens

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

- Leston Havens

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

- Leston Havens

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

- Leston Havens

Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

- Leston Havens

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

- Leston Havens

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.

- Leston Havens

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

- Leston Havens

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

- Leston Havens