Matsakis Quotes & Sayings

However, if you do not believe your clients, they may sense your doubt and never fully trust you. As Bruce Goderez (1986), director of a PTSD inpatient unit says, "It is important for the clinician and counselor to be willing to be made a fool." In other words, it is better that you believe a client who is lying or distorting the truth than to disbelieve a hurting trauma survivor who may never seek help again if your attitude is one of disbelief or disdain. Even if that client were to continue in therapy, they would never fully trust you. — Aphrodite Matsakis

As you may already know, post-traumatic stress disorder is extremely complex. Each client has a unique, perhaps virtually unbelievable, set of experiences, and an almost equally set of reactions to those experiences. — Aphrodite Matsakis

Some of the experiences endured by human beings on this earth are virtually unbelievable. — Aphrodite Matsakis

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.
[Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.] — Ovid

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need. — James Buchan

Men, do as I say and I will always lead you to victory. — Nathan Bedford Forrest

In order to believe clients' accounts of trauma, you need to suspend any pre-conceived notions that you have about what is possible and impossible in human experience. As simple as they may sound, it may be difficult to do so. — Aphrodite Matsakis

I'd rather hire someone who is extremely disciplined and process-oriented, than someone with all of the experience in the world. — Devon McDonald

Peace is a way of life.
Peace is a way of love.
Peace is a heart's forgiveness.
Peace is a mind's kindness.
Peace is living in harmony.
Peace is living with courtesy.
Peace is living with trust.
Peace is living with truth and trust.
Peace is living with freeness.
Peace is living with happiness. — Debasish Mridha

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night. — Sam Abell

Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we're supposed to have. — Kate McGahan

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. — W. Somerset Maugham

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear. — Dan Brown

It [treating trauma] may even cause you to reconsider some of your previous views of the world and to revise your sociopolitical perspectives. — Aphrodite Matsakis