Books Quote by Scott Pratt

“In his seminal book, Man’s Search for Meaning, the psychiatrist Victor Frankl described the essence of what has come to be known as an…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“He was drowning in depression and contemplating suicide. One day a friend noticed that his outlook had changed to hopeful serenity. The soldier attributed…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“In therapy, to meet the needs of traumatized survivors of war and torture, the patient is requested to repeatedly talk about the worst traumatic…

— Alfred Nestor

“The world needs people who have survived mistakes, tragedies, and trials to help the rest of us through. Where would we be if Victor…

— Kimberly Giles

“At that point, Frank seemed to run out of words. There was somebody that he'd reminded me of, as he was spinning out his…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“All his life Rob J., struggling to salvage people from the afflictions that bring about physical and mental failures, was surprised at how much…

— Noah Gordon

“This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful…

— Jessica Stern

“The value of experience, real or imagined, is that is shows us how to - or how NOT to - live. In reading about…

— Nina Sankovitch

“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with…

— Antonin Artaud

“Distress is a disease of the mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead to the…

— Elizabeth F. Howell

“the thirty-some years since then, his mind had eliminated that experience from his memory. He remembered it as if he’d read it in a…

— Isabel Allende