Leston Laycock Havens (July 31, 1924–July 29, 2011) was an American psychiatrist, psychotherapist and medical educator.
Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.
Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.
Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.
Of course they fought as lovers must do to find a liveable space.
Suffering brings the patient to us. . . the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.
The slow compromise, or even surrender, of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.
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.
Above all, the clinician must not shake what little faith the patient has in himself.
An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.
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