"Isn't love an attractive image, but a storm of life?"
Dimitris Karagiannis
"Happiness as the absence of pain, sorrow, hardship, illness, decay, and death is a sad, rosy fantasy that leads mathematically to depression."
Dimitris Karagiannis
"The hope for the existence of healthy, functional children is based on the quality of their parents' relationship."
Dimitris Karagiannis
"The parent's wish expresses acceptance of the child's diversity, the transcendence of his or her guidance, as well as trust in a hopeful perspective for the future."
Eleni Karagiannis
"Because today does not always indicate tomorrow, just as the bare branches of a tree in winter do not foreshadow the flowering of spring, we are called to see children, with hope for tomorrow, even if we face bare branches."
Eleni Karagiannis
"Parents who love, parents who respect, will at some point feel the joy of their child trusting them and sharing their feelings, but they will know that there will always be secret corners of the child's mental world that they must respect and not violate."
Eleni Karagiannis
"Guiltifying parents leads to their entrapment and entails the loss of the ability to utilize their valuable potential."
Eleni Karagiannis
"Negotiating different opinions on small everyday actions, instead of leading to the production of new solutions to new problems, is experienced as daily wear and tear for the partners."
Dimitris Karagiannis
"Love is a continuous process and meeting of persons. The goal is desire, the erotic attitude towards all of life, therefore the appreciation of life itself."
Dimitris Karagiannis
"Man seeks the beauty that transcends the vanity of the ephemeral, the beauty that highlights the spirituality of material things, that unites body and soul."
Eleni Karagiannis
"The Eucharistic experience is characterized by simplicity. Therefore, it is very demanding. It encompasses the personal decision that the person himself defines his life and not events, others or circumstances."
Dimitris Karagiannis
Could it be possible to find a way to keep on living, and things will reach meaning and endurance within the reckless reality of the ephemeral?
Eleni Karagiannis
We could only answer personally on the ancient and eternal questions regarding the understanding of human nature. The existential question of the personal meaning in life has to be addressed in every case of psychotherapy, as well as to every thoughtful person
"Can a way be found for life to continue, and for everything within the merciless reality of the ephemeral to find meaning and duration?"
Eleni Karagiannis
"How can parents satisfy a child without reinforcing the destructive illusion that they will always have what they desire?"
Eleni Karagiannis
"How can a parent allow joy to a child, if he himself has given up on the beauty of life, if he remains fixated on the wounds of the past, if he cannot bear to start from the beginning?"
Eleni Karagiannis
"The questions about understanding human nature, indeed ancient as well as eternal, demand a personal answer. The existential question about the personal meaning of life must be asked in every psychotherapy, but also in every thinking person."
Dimitris Karagiannis
