Words matter. These are the best Robert J. Waldinger Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they’re physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.
A troubled marriage can be as hazardous to physical health as cigarette smoking.
Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.
In medicine, we spend billions each year on doing and a fraction of that amount on listening and reflecting.
Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.
The fact remains that many of the most creative and innovative hypotheses that are eventually verified by empirical research are born in the consulting room out of practitioners’ work with individual patients.
It seems older people maximize their well-being more – they start to realize that life is short.
When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.
More than half of the complaints that patients bring to their doctors are emotional in origin. Most often, they include troubled or absent connections with loved ones.
We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders.
People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.
Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.
An essential question regarding treatment is whether psychodynamic therapy is effective for specific disorders.
It’s the quality of your relationships that matters.
Being human means there’s a wall-builder in each of us. Our minds naturally divide the world into me and not-me, us and them. For thousands of years, our sages have taught that we’re all one, yet we still divide wherever we look.
