Danika
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“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
― Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
“Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness—it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present.”
― Lying On The Couch
― Lying On The Couch
“Too often, we therapists neglect our personal relationships. Our work becomes our life.”
― The Gift of Therapy
― The Gift of Therapy
“What I mean by this is that it is natural to want to demonstrate our competence, to show our patients that we have something to offer. This inclination can get in the way of maintaining enough reserve to let people make their own discoveries and come up with their own solutions to the problems in their lives.”
― Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
― Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide
“When its patent on Prozac expired, Eli Lilly put the same recipe into a pink pill, named it Serafem, and created a new "illness": premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) (Cosgrove, 2010). Many women become irritable when premenstrual, but it is one thing to say "I'm sorry I'm kind of cranky today; my period is due" and another to announce "I have PMDD." It seems to me that the former owns one's behavior, increases the likelihood of warm connection with others, and acknowledges that life is sometimes difficult, while the latter implies that one has a treatable ailment, distances others from one's experience, and supports an infantile belief that everything can be fixed.”
― Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
― Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
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