Tales of Un-Knowing Quotes

“Many people, not least those people who come to therapy, convince themselves that there are alternative options to choose where none exist.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective

“I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factors that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective

“I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factos that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective

“... capable of maintaining and advocating a stance which negated all that he had gleaned from his earlier clarifications.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective

“... we may seek to impose severe restrictions upon what, how and when we engage with others so that the risks are statistically minimised.”
― Ernesto Spinelli, Tales of Un-Knowing: Therapeutic Encounters from an Existential Perspective