Gianna Traina’s Reviews > Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy > Status Update

“To choose solitude freely, to love and engage fully-both are capacities to be desired.
Herein lies the work of the talking cure.”

"You are terrific to take her on, Deborah. Neither you nor I like diagnostic labels much, but you can see why somebody called her borderline' at fourteen. You know the joke, right?
'How do you treat a borderline? Refer 'em!'"

“Psychotherapy cannot make us whole, but it does allow us to transform suffering into speech and, ultimately, to learn to live with desire. As these cases show, it can help turn egregious neurotic misery into the porcupine dilemmas of everyday life.”

“That is, we struggle on a daily basis to balance privacy and community, concern for self and others, sexual union and a room of our own.”

I’m hype

WE’RE AT THE NAIL SALON GETTING A PEDI AND I JUST FINISHED CLOCKWORK PRINCESS let’s just start another book fuck it