“As he spoke, I had the mental image of a small boy switching on the nightlight, not because he wants to be able to find his parents during the night, but because he fears his parents will forget him -… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“In trying so hard to be different from our parents, we're actually doing much the same thing -- doling out empty praise the way an earlier generation doled out thoughtless criticism. If we do it to avoid thinking about our… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten. — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“my breakdown was like a furnace and what was burned away was any belief in my own feelings” — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“And being dirty and broken – how could he love, or be loved? Going back AS A GIFT to my father for his eightieth… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“As he spoke, I had the mental image of a small boy switching on the nightlight, not because he wants to be able to… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief. — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.” — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“In trying so hard to be different from our parents, we're actually doing much the same thing -- doling out empty praise the way… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
“i knew tht we all have the capacity to act in self-destructive ways, nevertheless i had a kind of faith that the desire to… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
