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“It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.”
― The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
― The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
“It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.”
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“There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck".”
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“Love means that the satisfaction and security experienced by another person, a particular person, begins to be as important to you as your own satisfaction and security...I don't know how the word love is used in the world, but as far as I know, there is no state of love if it does not fit this definition.”
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“If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate in a variety of ways. Since you have to protect your feeling of personal worth by noting how unworthy everybody around you is, you are not provided with any data that are convincing evidence of your having personal worth; so it gradually evolves into 'I am not as bad as the other swine.' To be the best of swine, when it would be nice to be a person, is not a particularly good way of furthering anything except security operations. When security is achieved that way, it strikes at the very roots of that which is essentially human — the utterly vital role of interpersonal relations.”
― The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
― The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry
“愛とはある他者、ある特定の相手が体験する満足と安全とが自分にとって自分自身の満足と安全と同等の重要性を持つようになり始める、ということである・・・愛という言葉が世間でどのように使われているかは知らないが、私の知る限りこの定義に合わない場合においては愛という状態の存在することはない”
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