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“Beautiful people make even those of us who proudly consider ourselves unmoved by another's appearance dumb with admiration and fear and delight, and struck by the profound, enervating awareness of how inadequate we are, how nothing, not intelligence or education or money, can usurp or overpower or deny beauty.”
― The People in the Trees
― The People in the Trees
“And at last he spoke the final and total truth. [...]
"I don't want you to go", he said again.
And that was all he needed to say.
He leaned forward onto her bed and put his arm around her.
Holding her.
He knew it would come, and soon, maybe even this 12.07. The moment she would slip from his grasp, no matter how tightly he held on.
Butnot this moment, the monster whispered, still close. Not just yet.
Conor held tightly onto his mother.
And by doing so, he could finally let her go.”
―
"I don't want you to go", he said again.
And that was all he needed to say.
He leaned forward onto her bed and put his arm around her.
Holding her.
He knew it would come, and soon, maybe even this 12.07. The moment she would slip from his grasp, no matter how tightly he held on.
Butnot this moment, the monster whispered, still close. Not just yet.
Conor held tightly onto his mother.
And by doing so, he could finally let her go.”
―
“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.”
― Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
― Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“Στις μέρες μας τα περισσότερα εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα (συχνά κάτω από την πίεση επιτροπών πιστοποίησης ή ασφαλιστικών εταιρειών) προσφέρουν εκπαίδευση μόνο σε βραχείες «εμπειρικά υποστηριζόμενες» ψυχοθεραπείες, οι οποίες συνίστανται σε εξαιρετικά συγκεκριμένες τεχνικές που απευθύνονται σε εξειδικευμένες διαγνωστικές κατηγορίες όπως η κατάθλιψη, η διαταραχή πρόσληψης τροφής, οι κρίσεις πανικού, η διπολική διαταραχή, οι εθισμοί ή συγκεκριμένες φοβίες. Η ανησυχία μου είναι μήπως οι συγκεκριμένες παθήσεις στις οποίες επικεντρώνεται αυτήν την εποχή η ψυχοθεραπευτική εκπαίδευση έχουν σαν αποτέλεσμα να πάψουμε να βλέπουμε τον άνθρωπο ως όλο και μήπως η ανθρωπιστική ολιστική προσέγγιση που χρησιμοποίησα με τους δέκα θεραπευόμενους που αναφέρω εδώ χαθεί για πάντα. Παρότι η έρευνα για την αποτελεσματικότητα της ψυχοθεραπείας εξακολουθεί σταθερά να δείχνει ότι ο πιο σημαντικός παράγοντας που καθορίζει την έκβαση είναι η θεραπευτική σχέση, στα μεταπτυχιακά προγράμματα ψυχοθεραπείας η εκπαίδευση σπανιότατα ασχολείται με την υφή, τη δημιουργία και την εξέλιξη της σχέσης αυτής.”
― Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
― Creatures of a Day: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy
“For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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