“It was a fire of conscience, and meanings that made up packages of hell which seared into the mind. And what could… — Paul Valent Copy Share Image
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The establishment of an authentic relationship with patients, by its very nature, demands that we forego the power of the triumvirate of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The mind-body clash has disguised the truth that psychotherapy is physiology. When a person starts therapy, he isn't beginning a pale conversation;… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes. — Leston Havens Copy Share Image
“The manic relief that comes from the fantasy that we can with one savage slash cut the chains of the past and… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I've been through many years of psychotherapy, psycho-drama, I've taken risks in my life. I've had trials and tribulations just like every… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind,… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“P-2.in.1. Psychotherapy is a process that changes the view of the self. At best this “new” self is a more beneficent self-concept,… — Foundation for Inner Peace Copy Share Image
It is likely enough that the patient will say, Why don't you say something? Or if not the patient, the relatives -… — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
“These independent systems of the subconscious may be regarded as complexes in the classic sense. They are islands of unresolved conflict that… — John G. Shobris Copy Share Image
“For example, in order to identify these schemas or clarify faulty relational expectations, therapists working from an object relations, attachment, or cognitive… — Edward Teyber Copy Share Image
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Kandel argues that when psychotherapy changes people, 'it presumably does so through learning, by producing changes in gene expression that alter the… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
“For people who are depressed, and especially for those who do not receive enough benefit from medication of for whom the side… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Those who are aware of their condition and experience themselves as "multiple" might refer to themselves as "we" rather than "I." I… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight.… — Christopher Cross Copy Share Image
“ Maybe I needed that somebody else could cry over my pain, to become able to cry over it myself. Nobody ever… — Giovanni Liotti Copy Share Image
“I've always regarded therapy more as a calling than a profession, a way of life for people who care about others.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients'… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
“I often urge patients to project themselves into the future and to consider how they can live now so that five years… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
“One knows one's madness, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“When you feed a girl, you make her feel that both her body and her self are wanted. When you screw her… — Joan R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Ironically your greatest spiritual asset is what appears to be your greatest obstacle: your obsession with yourself. Today we live in the… — Richard Harvey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
