Sublime

Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl

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

Later Mark posed several questions to me about my death anxiety and about my children, and I responded to each question, but made sure of taking the next step of exploring his feelings about posing questions to me and about my answering them.

Je savais aussi qu’il s’agissait d’un projet à très long terme. J’ai organisé mon temps de façon à consacrer quatre heures chaque matin à la lecture et à prendre des notes, dans mon petit studio au-dessus du garage, après quoi j’enfourchais mon vélo et gagnais Stanford, afin de passer le reste de l’après-midi avec les étudiants et les patients.

First some background on the meeting: I have been a member of a leaderless support group with ten other therapists for the past fifteen years,

I believe that the antidote to much anguish is sheer connectedness, I tryto live in the hour with my patient without erecting artificial and unnecessary barriers.