Taking care of yourself "with no cost to others."  (pp.  67-70)

Marlowe gives another illustration of how a grown woman found how to interrupt a pattern established in childhood.  When she finds herself becoming wary of a relationship which might lead to another abandonment, she simply looks at her shoes and realizes that since they are polished and she can hang loose and be more fun to be with.  (pp. 58-60)

It would be difficult to find a more severe test of driving your own car through such a challenging journey.   (pp. 55-57)

When a two year old daughter of one of Marlowe's students drowned, the father considered dropping the class to grieve.  Instead, he found enough value in Marlowe's approach to make use of it and shared it with his wife.  (pp. 54-55)

Procrastination can be used two ways.  You can put off stopping smoking or you can put off lighting up!  (pp 53-54)

He blamed her for his anger and she blamed him for making her cry.  Dr. Erickson's advice will floor you!  (pp. 51-52)

Dr. Erickson understands the choices we make with impressive clarity.  He refers to this description in future episodes of Flippin' Freud.  (pp.  46-50)

Ralph Holder learns to defuse his relationship with his ten year old son.  Can you use your "remote" to change your  "TV" channels?  (pp. 41-46)

As a graduate student in psychology, Marlowe spent three years on the couch "looking for clues to my difficulties and analyzed my dreams...I finally quit...since J did not seem to be making much progress."  He learned to approach his clients in a very different way.  (pp. 37-41)

Be careful about the sentence, "I can never really find what I truly want."  (pp. 36-37)