Gayathri Devi

“if we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility—that is, to apprehend how they themselves contribute to their distress.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy

“We need to go even further: the therapist must strive to create a new therapy for each patient.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

“Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.”
― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space