Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

If we do not work on all three levels -- body, feeling, mind -- the symptoms of our distress will keep returning, as the body goes on repeating the story stored in its cells until it is finally listened to and understood.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember.

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.