Leston Havens Quotes

• Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.

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  Suffering, Needs, Patient

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• Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

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  Patient, Heard, Feels

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• The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.

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  Real, Goal, Alliances

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• Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.

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  Time, Believe, Long

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• The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

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  Hope, Normal, Compromise

  Leston Havens (1996). “A Safe Place”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

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  Argument, Building, Made

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• Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.

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  Space, Lovers, Courses

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• Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.

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  Littles, Patient, Shakes

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• Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.

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  Profound, Groups, Alliances

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