Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.
Jonathan KellermanLife is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.
Jonathan KellermanThe key to excellent report writing' he said between chews, 'is to take every bit of passion out of it. Use an extra heaping portion of superflously extraneous tautological redundancies in order to make it mind-numbingly boring. So that when one's superior officers read it, they zone out and start skimming and maybe don't notice the fact that one has been spinning one's wheels since the body turned up and hasn't solved a goddamn thing.
Jonathan KellermanHis experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)
Jonathan KellermanI'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)
Jonathan KellermanTo trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)
Jonathan KellermanTags: trust
A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)
Jonathan KellermanCreighton tried to smile again. The result fit him like panty hose on a mastiff.
Jonathan KellermanI'd long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors--there are studies that show it--are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.
Jonathan KellermanThe science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
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