Sublime

The optimal performance brain is the same brain (physically, not functionally) as the traumatized brain, just regulated.

Therapists use three sources of information when working with patients: What the patients say, what they do, and how we feel while we’re sitting with them.

Every insight is partial, requires long years of integration into our lives, and is liable itself to be incorporated into our narcissistic fantasies of specialness or into one or another of our secret practices.

Consulting with anyone can be considered a form of assessment.

The autist must find her place in the world, where she can turn her diagnosis into something positive and play to her strengths. In my work as a radio producer, I can use my sensitivity to sound and ability to pick up on details. I hear every poor edit and shift in volume. But wearing my noise-cancelling headphones on the crowded metro on my way to

Je me suis toujours dit que refuser ce genre de poste était une sage décision, car c’est dans la recherche clinique, la pratique et l’écriture que je prouve mes vraies capacités. Je dois néanmoins admettre que ma peur des conflits, ma timidité d’une façon générale ont joué un rôle significatif dans ce comportement. Connaissant mon goût pour les soi

What counts, though, isn’t that the therapist has developed an accurate diagnosis but that the patient is allowed to recognize it for themselves, by a process of carefully designed prompts, in a way that they can absorb without fear, in their own time. That is why therapists tend to proceed via gentle questions—“I wonder how it felt when Mom went a

As a therapist, I have three sources of information: each client’s report, what happens in front of me in the room, and how I feel sitting with the client.