“While researchers need to respect the fact that like snowflakes, no two patients are exactly alike, clinicians need to be aware that like discriminating between a light flurry and a blizzard, personality constellations can be usefully quantified and categorized.” Jared DeFife and Drew Westen, 2012.
“A constructive way of dealing with the shortcomings of empirical research is to do better, more creative, and more ecologically valid research.”, Morris Eagle and David Wolitzky, 2011.
“Psychotherapy research: do we know what works for whom?” Peter Fonagy, 2018.
“Resolving alliance ruptures can provide patients with opportunities to acknowledge disowned parts of themselves and to learn to negotiate the dialectically opposed needs for self-agency and relatedness in a constructive fashion.” Jeremy Safran, 1993.