Celine Prell

“God does not save us from suffering on this Earth. The Staryk afflict the righteous as well as the sinful, just as do illness and sorrow.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“The exploration and construction of a personal history with another person is a powerful, transformative intrapersonal experience. Without memory, there is no self. Meaning is personal experience composed into narratives. However, the narratives brought forth by the patient are generally stereotypes and closed. A central part of what the analyst adds is imagination, a facility with reorganizing and reframing, a capacity to envision different endings, and different futures. If the storylines suggested by the analyst himself are rigid and stereotypes, the analytic process degenerates into sterility and conversion.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“All of us regard our own theory as most balanced, because we each stand at the center of our own (conceptual) world, with the thoughts of others arranged around us, everyone else accounted for.”
― Stephen A. Mitchell, Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis

“To play requires trust and love. There is no more intimate act than play, even sex”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow