67 quotes found
“Life is a purposeful action.”
“Use fear as a counselor not a captor.”
“The one trying to have the last word is rarely walking in the Word.”
“One last happy thought: Your marriage will end either in death or divorce. (Think about it!) So well before the I dos (and the eventual tears), why not give both of yourselves a chance for a marria...”
“An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.”
“Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.”
“Family therapists view the therapeutic relationship as a means to an end rather than as an end in itself. Family therapists see beyond the problematic patterns in the family to the potential healin...”
“Families come into therapy with their own structure, and tone, and rules. Their organization, their pattern, has been established over years of living, and it is extremely meaningful and very painf...”
“The individual psychotherapy patient comes to the therapist with an almost automatic deference, a sense of dependence and compliance. The role pattern is old and established: the dependent child se...”
“Even though we were still waiting for Don, therapy was well begun. We were engaged in a subtle, often predictable, and very important contest with the family about who was going to be present at th...”
“When Carl asked the Brices to bring their whole family to therapy, everyone in the family knew intuitively what that meant. Their whole world would be exposed: all its caring, its history, its ange...”
“It has been a long road for us as family therapists to reach an understanding of just this phenomenon-the sense of the whole, the family system. While we could have explained the theory of meeting ...”
“Love is divine force of existence.”
“Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.”
“Techniques are like tools: The more you have, the more options for getting a job done - but you have to know what you are building first.”
“In cases where treatment with medication is warranted, work on family interactions will help to reduce symptom severity and promote better functioning in the long run.”
“Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.”
“Happiness is a choice and a state of mind.”
“When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that youre going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach ...”
“All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control”
