Tales from the Couch Quotes

“It wouldn’t be right to have a responsibility and be held accountable for a job without having the authority to do it. Imagine”
― Bob Wendorf, Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology

“The real pathology is in the way family members relate to each other. Who actually becomes symptomatic and shows up as the “patient” is somewhat arbitrary, and she may even be the healthiest one in the family”
― Bob Wendorf, Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology

“Family is the background music that provides the context for everything we are, everything we do.”
― Bob Wendorf, Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology

“Sociopaths are users, takers, abusers, criminals, and con artists. They come in two main types: mean sons of bitches and charmers.”
― Bob Wendorf, Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology

“communication theorist Paul Watzlawick finds that human beings naturally tend to ascribe bad faith to someone with whom they are miscommunicating. That is, they assume the other is either malevolent (“bad”) or crazy (“mad”) when all that has occurred is a simple misunderstanding of what is being said.”
― Bob Wendorf, Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology

“learned that self-esteem is essential to good mental health and that it comes from yourself and that it’s very subjective. You learn to value yourself based on criteria you choose yourself. I”
― Bob Wendorf, Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology

“Failing to discipline is failing to love.”
― Bob Wendorf, Tales from the Couch: A Clinical Psychologist's True Stories of Psychopathology