Sublime

philosopher Arthur Young, founder of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley.

Dr. Theodore Rubin in his book Compassion and Self-Hate

Just as surgeons must first learn anatomy, the future “Angst doctor” must first understand the relationship between the one who counsels and the one who is counseled. And, if I am to contribute to the science of such counseling, I must learn to observe the counseling relationship just as objectively as the pigeon’s brain.

Debra Chamberlin-Taylor,

The first part of any path of honesty with the self is to make these unconscious aspects conscious. They are misconceptions; destructive emotions and attitudes, and behavior patterns that arise from them; and pretenses and defenses erected to hide them."

The essence of psychotherapy lies in a willingness to get systematically interested in why we constantly respond in the bizarre and uncalled-for ways we exhibit. It asks by what sequence of formative experiences an otherwise perfectly decent and intelligent person could be led to sob on the floor or threaten to jump out of the window after an argum

Emotional pain stems from the body’s contraction in response to the loss or disruption of a loving connection.

He was beginning to define, in his earliest work, a new kind of competence in which treatment was the provision of an opportunity for the patient, an opportunity to make himself known.

—Lama Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist and Making Your Mind an Ocean