The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.