"Every once in a while I come across someone who says, 'Who has time for a book?' My response is, who doesn't have time? Do you see what I'm doing here?"
~ Stanley Hughes, PhD, Psychologist

"Most often, the problems that bring people to mental health treatment are not encapsulated problems. They are woven into the fabric of their lives. They are embedded in, and inseparable from, the person's characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, coping, defending, and relating to others: In other words, personality."
~ Jonathan Shedler, PhD, Psychologist

"The patient should give some indication of wanting not only change but to change, that is, of dissatisfaction with something that resides in the self." 
~ Otto Kernberg, M.D., Psychoanalyst

“A basic premise of psychodynamic thinking is that internal object relations etched in neural networks from early childhood development tend to repeat themselves again and again in adult relationships.”
~ Glen Gabbard, M.D., Psychoanalyst

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