The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.