Sublime

Therapists know the human heart, not primarily through books, but by being courageous about exploring their own nature. They may not share our fantasies exactly, but they accept that their own are as colourful and as complex. They don’t have our precise anxieties, but they know well enough the powerful and peculiar fears that hold us all hostage.

EQ is a measure of our ability to discern the difference between our own emotional states and those of others, as well as our capacity to take responsibility for those emotional states.

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.

She says she is fatigued but is engaged when interesting people are present.

The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud.