Leston Havens Quotes

#1. Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

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#2. Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

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#3. The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.

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#4. Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

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#5. Suffering brings the patient to us ... the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person ...

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#6. The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

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#7. An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

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#8. Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.

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#9. Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

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