The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!

- Heinz Kohut

If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell me is likely to be true - that m…

- Heinz Kohut

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

- Heinz Kohut

Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.

- Heinz Kohut

The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all port…

- Heinz Kohut

...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in a…

- Heinz Kohut