Persecutory Quotes & Sayings

I'm lucky that people feel comfortable sharing things with me. — Alison Rosen

Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven. — Evan Esar

Uneducated therapists often have an inability to cope with the behaviors of persecutory alters. They commonly focus on helping one side of the personality system and battling with the other side. When "Satan" or some similar part talks in a deep scary voice to you or to the client, it is easy to think this is a nasty perpetrator or a supernatural being, and to and to oppose it or fight with it or try to banish it. However, if you do this, you will engender the hostility of this part, who has probably been very badly hurt and told a lot of lies. You will foster internal splitting in this way, and get nowhere fast.
Once you recognize that these alters have a protective intent, you can see that working with them involves enlisting them in the service of healing, just as they were originally enlisted in the cause of safety. You will see examples of these kinds of errors, which often result in clients leaving their therapists, in survivor LisaBri's story: When therapists make mistakes. — Alison Miller

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible as J.J. Abrams is. — Joseph Gatt

Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught. — Barbara Delinsky

It is an essential part of the interpretive work that it should keep in step with fluctuations between love and hatred, between happiness and satisfaction on the one hand and persecutory anxiety and depression on the other. — Melanie Klein

We know intellectually that money can't buy happiness yet we spend and go into debt as if it does. — Michelle Singletary

Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere.
If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it. — Werner Erhard

No touching ... Cashmere is highly sensitive to the oil in poor people's fingers. — Daniel Tosh