Family Evaluation Quotes

“When anxiety is internalized and expressed as a physical symptom, the person feels bad “physically”, when anxiety is internalized and expressed as an emotional symptom, the person feels bad “mentally.”
― Michael E. Kerr, Family Evaluation

“There is a tendency in all of us to want to see schizophrenia...as somehow separate from ourselves. There is a certain comfort...in building a barrier that says 'schizophrenia' on one side and 'normal' on the other. The 'normals' often benevolently minister to the 'schizophrenic' ones and, in this effort to be helpful, often firm up the barrier, further isolating the schizophrenic person and family. This barrier is of our own making, not nature's act.”
― Murray Bowen & Michael Kerr, Family Evaluation