An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.