Lying on the Couch

What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis. There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

Nonetheless, the past is part of your present consciousness—it forms the spectacles through which you experience the present.

Seymour a Ernest: "A veces el destino nos coloca en una posición dónde lo correcto resulta equivocado