Molly Allen

“If you point out a “truth,” for want of a better word, to patients before they’re able to hear or admit it, they lose trust in the therapist; their defences take over, and they improve only superficially. Overinterpreting to the client is the sign of a new or insecure therapist. A therapist can lead patients to the door of understanding, but they shouldn’t drag them in. Their patients will enter when they’re ready.”
― Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Four Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery

“Maternal attachment is more important than anything else to a baby—even more important than food. A baby will give up anything to have it. Without it, the child is anxious and unable to explore or deal with the world in any normal way. And attachment disorder doesn’t just affect the relationship with the mother; it affects all social, emotional, and cognitive development. If the child doesn’t experience attachment, that child can’t move forward to step two—trusting and emotionally attaching to others and, eventually, sexually attaching to others. In other words, you can’t grow emotionally if you didn’t have infant attachment.”
― Catherine Gildiner, Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Four Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery