Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.
I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!
People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.
Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.
Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.