Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal — to uncloak, if you will — these unconscious desires, the things that...

The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong — who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?

All emotions, even those that are suppressed and unexpressed, have physical effects. Unexpressed emotions tend to stay in the body like small ticking time bombs—they are illnesses in incubation.