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Jonathan Kellerman

I don’t practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

Good, I Am, Data

Jonathan Kellerman

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It’s like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.

Friends, Old Friends, Me

Jonathan Kellerman

If you ask me, psychopaths are more talented than the rest of us… but they’re still fucking psychopaths.

milo-sturgis, psychopaths, talent, truth

Jonathan Kellerman

Revenge was a dish best eaten cold, but eight years between was arctic.

Jonathan Kellerman

Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It’s not, it’s anguish.

alex-delaware, madness, mental-illness

Jonathan Kellerman

I’d long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors–there are studies that show it–are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.

grief, survivors

Jonathan Kellerman

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

Jonathan Kellerman

O Great Swami of the East, your wisdom has pierced the miasma.

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.

alex-delaware, anxiety, coping, fear, metaphor, problems, psychology, swimming, waves

Jonathan Kellerman

I’d long thought that a surfeit of sensitivity could be a killing thing, too much insight malignant in its own right. The best survivors–there are studies that show it–are those blessed with an inordinate ability to deny. And keep on marching.

grief, survivors

Jonathan Kellerman

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

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.

alex-delaware, anxiety, coping, fear, metaphor, problems, psychology, swimming, waves