I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile Quotes

“Trauma doesn’t have an expiration date,”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“When someone copies your entire personality, it’s not a sign of empathy. It’s a sign of the complete opposite.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“And the wisdom to know the difference,” I finished impatiently. “What does that have to do with anything?”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“What the fuck, Richard?”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“Harper. Collins. Come with me.” Then he laughed. “Heh. Isn’t that a book or something?”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“Even a broken clock was right twice a day.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“But real forgiveness does not require reconciliation or contact of any kind.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“Many trauma survivors can re-tell their stories in vivid detail, a hundred times over, but that doesn’t mean the pain is gone.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“Abusive people love to use spirituality and forgiveness to manipulate their victims into accepting more abuse.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“He longed for hope and reason amongst all the chaos. He was comforted by the idea of a divine plan.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“he took solace in the idea that we humans are all connected by an “energy” that surges through everything in this universe.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“How many times do I need this choice from God, before I learn my lesson?” “You think we’re all here to learn a lesson?” “Yes,” I said. “And until we resolve that lesson, it will continue to cause us suffering — in this life, and the next.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“But most of the other stuff he babbled on about was incoherent nonsense. Even a broken clock was right twice a day.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“Though psychopaths make up roughly 1% of the general male adult population, they make up between 15% and 25% of the males incarcerated in North American prison systems. There is no other variable that is more highly correlated to being in prison than psychopathy.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“I’m playing judge and jury, because I don’t trust that God will deliver justice,”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“You can mistreat someone, and then make them feel worse by guilt-tripping and shaming them for the perfectly valid anger they carry. But real forgiveness does not require reconciliation or contact of any kind.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“Dr. Harper, do you know the serenity prayer?” “Yes,” I said. He recited it for me anyway. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can—”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“Chase, the thing you have to understand is that our bodies and minds don’t create a ‘detour’ unless we’ve experienced some pretty serious trauma. If we want to get back on the highway, we have to be ready to see the crash.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can—” “And the wisdom to know the difference,”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“I think we all have lessons to learn. Old energy and wounds to resolve. So we keep coming back until our work is done, and then we’re infinite and free — just like the stars. But it usually takes a few tries.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“Trauma doesn’t have an expiration date,” I”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“It’s pretty clever, actually,” I continued. “You can mistreat someone, and then make them feel worse by guilt-tripping and shaming them for the perfectly valid anger they carry. But real forgiveness does not require reconciliation or contact of any kind.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison

“he believed that most suffering could be traced back to old emotional wounding — trauma that blocked the connected energy from flowing freely through our bodies, causing us to instead feel isolated, fearful, and defective.”
― Dr. Harper, I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison