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‘Resist when wrongly commanded.’(Sign in a Chinese hand laundry, Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 1963)
I remember one girl who was having difficulties at home. She was expecting a baby. She wasn't married. At the time there was tremendous pressure from her family to marry and to have the baby in the context of a marriage. She thought she had to leave the college where I was principal. I said to her (a) ‘Don't marry’; (b) ‘Don't leave the college’ and (c) ‘We'll do what we can do to take care of the baby’…. Those who were keepers of the regulations were a bit put out that here was one who was the writer of regulations, and one who was supposed to enforce the regulations, appearing to go against them. I believe that someone's got to review these regulations and the impact they have on young people. (Bart McGettrick, Scottish educator, quoted in Rogers & Naraine, 2009, p. 33).
‘How many psychotherapists does it take to change a light bulb?’ ‘Only one. But the light bulb has to want to change.’
The therapist's functioning in the spirit of dedication, which is the norm among physicians in other branches of medicine, represents here, in the practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, an unconscious defense against his seeing clearly many critical aspects of both the patient and himself. (Searles, 1967, quoted in Schwartz, 1999, p. 181)
I realised after I left there [Chestnut Lodge] that I had not been able to keep the negative mother transference on their part sufficiently in perspective and I had come to accept that I was in fact a totally ineffectual mother to them, that my own