For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)
Deep down, everyone wants the truth.
But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.
The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.
Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.
Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.