Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems… — Elizabeth Wurtzel 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
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
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
The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's… — Jonathan Haidt 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
“We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning.… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Besides stage magic props and settings, ritually abusing groups use technology, such as that described by Katz and Fotheringham. Military/political groups have… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
“It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed young woman, for about three months… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“To make matters worse, everyone she talks to has a different opinion about the nature of his problem and what she should… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
The person who really needs the psychotherapy (...) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist's office by his… — Frank Kameny Copy Share Image
“A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se a ser expressa em frases… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire… — Carl Jung 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
“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
The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays… — Jed Diamond Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Classically, the patient went into psychotherapy because she was neurotic from the suppression of her perverse desires, now she goes into psychotherapy… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I did psychotherapy for about six years. I stopped going regularly when I'd finished 'Elemental,' which I think probably says something. I… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
