Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice Quotes

“[W]e are basically more similar to our patients than we are different from them. The psychological mechanisms in pathological states are merely extensions of principles involved in normal developmental functioning. Doctor and patient are both human beings. [...] [C]ountertransference in the psychiatrist and transference in the patient are essentially identical processes - each unconsciously experiences the other as someone from the past.”
― Glen O. Gabbard, Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice