234 Quotes About Misunderstanding

Whatever the theory, it is important to note that clinicians such as Kluft draw attention to the clinical error of insisting that all alters talk as one or that only the alter with the legal name should be validated. 'Such stances are commonly associated with therapeutic failure'.

While professionals and patients can be blamed for 'believing' in an illness or having one, patients also report problems when they are believed. Some professionals, they commented, have worryingly simplistic ideas of 'integration'.Ignoring the separately named alters in effect offers a psychic death sentence rather than aiding integration. If anything it can create a compliant false-self 'main person' who answers to [his or] her name and keeps all other 'states' in silent terror internally.

Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity.

The big problems we see in our world today are not just the problems we see, but the misunderstanding behind the problems we see. When we miss understanding, we shall never see understanding. Certain things are just simple, it is only misunderstanding that makes things complex!

More often than not, we’re not mindful or prudent of what we say until we already hurt or offended someone. And the sad part of it, we don’t always own or take responsibility for our insensitivity, and that's tragic.

Hollywood, especially, has tended to portray the warrior as a dysfunctional individual.

There is a difference between agreement and understanding: When discussing complex social and institutional dynamics such as racism, consider whether "I don't agree" may actually mean "I don't understand.

Our agreement or disagreement is at times based on a misunderstanding.

Understanding has no cost, yet, it is too expensive for some people to purchase