The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself, and the work of self-understanding is endless. I'm still learning.

Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.