Quotations

“The extraordinarily difficult process of growing up on the inside as well on the outside and the psychoanalytic process may have shared goals: those of self-knowledge and a capacity to have as integrated a sense of self as may be possible.” (Margot Waddell)

“It is really a question of discovering the real artistry in a person (everyone has it but often deeply buried) and then liberating this – it is, I suppose, enabling someone (or indeed oneself) to become more fully alive.” (Ben Nicholson)

“The fact that there seems to be an underlying drive towards development in every person, as in every patient, discourages the view that adverse circumstances at one stage or age are necessarily determinant” (Margot Waddell)

“It seems to me that the overarching theme among psychodynamic approaches to helping people is that the more honest we are with ourselves, the better our chances for living a satisfying and useful life” (Nancy McWilliams)