Dot Squier

“from the process of psychotherapy, and patients become equal partners in the conduct of an analysis not of their ‘psyches’ but of the predicaments that cause them distress.”
― David Smail, How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

“But in the end the first step has to be taken in fear and trembling, with no guarantee that there will be a positive outcome.”
― David Smail, How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

“Though the contrast between how we feel inside and how we wish to appear to others is universal and causes most of us many an uneasy moment, the extent to which we suffer in this way depends probably on the degree to which we were allowed as children to develop private lives without the threat of adult censure.”
― David Smail, How to Survive Without Psychotherapy

“There can be few people who are not familiar with the state of depression. As with anxiety, it is probably when we can't see the reasons for it that it turns from a painful and unpleasant experience into a malign and threatening form of misery.”
― David Smail, How to Survive Without Psychotherapy