Sublime

In The Wire everyone was both protagonist and antagonist to someone else; every battle was balanced and you didn’t know who would win

The thing to watch for, in my opinion, is what strategy a person employs first when distressed and, if that one fails, what strategy the person switches to next. These are the person’s primary and secondary patterns.

Further, Cara realised that she was also compounding her suffering, not only by saying, ‘I must be busy’, but also by repeating to herself, ‘Things used to be different.

their reactions to the obstacles that litter their path.

what psychoanalysis was about: that for the patient, and this was more true the more disturbed the patient was, the reliability of the setting that the analyst maintains does much of the work of the psychoanalysis.

As a couples therapist, I have three sources of information: what the partners report about themselves and each other, how they behave in front of me, and how I feel witnessing their behavior.

What CBT added to behavior therapy was helpful in leading people to see how thoughts can dominate our behavior.

Good structure will deliver a crisis point that forces the protagonist to choose between their old and new selves.