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Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Jonathan Kellerman

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it.

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Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

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His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed.

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All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there's always a key out there that opens it.

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Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

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Just because others have it worse doesn't mean you have to suffer in silence.

Jonathan Kellerman

At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman

Born: August 9, 1949 (age 76)

Bio: Jonathan Kellerman is an American psychologist, and Edgar and Anthony Award-winning author of numerous bestselling suspense novels. His writings on psychology include Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children.

Known for:

When the Bough Breaks (1985)
The Murder Book (2002)
The Murderer's Daughter (2015)
Motive (2015)
A Cold Heart (2003)

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