Therapy is always an alternating sequence of interaction and reflection upon that interaction.

Ernest Becker's extraordinary book, The Denial of Death.

Mark posed an uncomfortable question, but, when faced with it, I followed Terence's maxim and searched my own mind for some similar recollection and then shared it.

"Look straight into the heart of your panic. Tell me what you see."

She was eternally dissatisfied with herself

But generally ideas are not enough: it is the synergy of "ideas-plus-relationship" that creates real therapeutic power.

Vladimir Nabokov, the great Russian novelist, in his autobiography, Speak, Memory, which begins with these lines: "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more

What can you do now in your life so that one year or five years f•om now, you won't look back and have similar dismay about the new regrets you've accumulated? In other words, can you find a way to live without continuing to accumulate regrets?

relationship-driven.