A therapist colleague recently agreed with me that the funniest things we’d ever heard were told to us by our patients. Summer break (and the week of the bar exam) seems like an appropriate time for a laugh. So…without further ado…here are some of my patients’ funniest utterances from the past few years: (An Arab [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Patients say the darndest things!
Posted in Intriguing Patients, tagged funny things, jokes, patients, psychotherapy on July 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Gone Fishin’
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged billable hours, Sullivan & Cromwell, vacation on July 21, 2010 | 10 Comments »
What is it about lawyers and vacations? Like the old saying about long-horn cattle and a Texas fence – they just don’t get along so good. It’s like a physical aversion. I worked with a client recently who was planning, in utter frustration, to quit his medium-size firm in a medium-size American city. The partner [...]
Stuck.
Posted in AskThePeople'sTherapistSeries, tagged dissertation, Id, inner child, procrastination, stuck, thesis, writer's block on July 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This week’s question is from A.M.: What strategies can you suggest for someone who is stuck when writing, say a thesis or a dissertation? Two people dear to me have essentially withdrawn from society, apparently unable to deal with the ego strain of finishing this last piece of the degree. Any thoughts? And here’s my [...]
Don’t look down.
Posted in Thoughts and Musings, tagged climbing a ladder, commitment, relationships on July 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My patient was in a tizzy about a relationship: “I don’t know if I can do this. I mean – he’s talking about going on a vacation together. What if we break up before then?” I tried to calm her down. “You guys have been dating for a month. No one’s bought tickets. He’s just [...]
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