“ Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one’s parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. ”
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“ Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood. ”
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“ Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. ”
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“ It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. ”
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“ Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time. ”
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“ Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time. ”
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“ The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible. ”
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“ Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time. ”
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“ If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue. ”
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“ Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ”
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“ There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all. ”
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“ One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say. ”
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“ Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ”
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“ I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. ”
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“ Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ”
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“ The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. ”
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“ Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ”
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“ The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. ”
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“ Hitler, Stalin, Mao and other dictators were exposed to severe physical mistreatment in childhood and refused to face up to the fact later. Instead of seeing and feeling what had happened to them, they avenged themselves vicariously by killing millions of people… ”
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“ Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ”
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“ In the short term, corporal punishment may produce obedience. But it is a fact documented by research that in the long term the results are inability to learn, violence and rage, bullying, cruelty, inability to feel another's pain, especially that of one's own children, even drug addiction and suicide, unless there are enlightened or at least helping witnesses on hand to prevent that development. ”
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“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”
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“ Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course — because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. ”
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“ It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. ”
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