"A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature of an evolving society."

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Source : Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

Erving Polster

#Effectiveness Quotes #Growth Quotes #Achieve Quotes

“If I can get David Haye , he will sink, one hundred per cent!”
“Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.”
“I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.”
“Worry is negative goal setting.”
“Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.”
“And how did your day go?" I asked Ascanio. He turned to me, a dreamy look on his pretty face. "We killed things. There was blood. Fountains of blood. And then we had barbecue.”
“Thereâ€™s a ghost of a dream that you donâ€™t even try to shake free off because youâ€™re too in love with the way she haunts you.”
“Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.”

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