Association of Professional Psychologists

THERAPY IS VERY SIMPLE
'So there’s no truth to what he’s saying?’
‘You believe the patient?’ Schlomo said.
‘I shouldn’t believe the patient?’
‘Never.’
‘Not even what they say in therapy?’
‘Especially not in therapy. The patient is unbelievable. Someone like you
is unbelievable too, because you haven’t been analyzed. When you decide
to do it, does Schlomo have the guy for you.’
‘Ed Slapadek, I know, I know.’ Ed was the analyst Schlomo alwaysrecommended to new residents. ‘So I shouldn’t believe what my patientsare telling me in therapy?’
‘No Slapadek for you, bubbie. Better. Patients spend their time in therapylying, and thinking they’re telling the truth. Your job is to show them
they’re lying. When they stop lying, you terminate. Therapy is simple: they
fall in love with you, they get disappointed – sad and lonely – they work itthrough, they get better.

‘Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind,and should be employed in the cure of madness.’
—BENJAMIN RUSH, M.D.
‘The Father of American Psychiatry’
1818

When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the
fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find
his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. I cannot pretend I am without fear.
But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude…. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a
thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilegeand adventure
- OLIVER SACKS

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
— BERTRAN D RUSSEL L

THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF GARBAGE

If we want things to stay as they are,
things will have to change.
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn, and
taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through
each other’s eyes for an instant?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

The thought once occurred to me that if one wanted to crush and destroy aman entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, one at whichthe most fearsome murderer would tremble, shrinking from it in advance,all one would have to do would be to make him do work that wascompletely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In order to treat something we first must learn to recognize it.
—Sir William Osler1

Strangely enough, forgetting seems to be as important as remembering.

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