“...two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst,… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
“Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people… — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
“It can work the other way as well. I have worked with many depressed patients who were still stuck after I had… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich,… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The idea of using current distortions to re-create the past was part of an old, now abandoned, vision of the therapist as… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The essential point of the preparative nature of psychotherapy in relation to magical practice is again reinforced two years later, in The… — Christopher A. Plaisance Copy Share Image
“Can a therapist make me not want to get pregnant? Can a therapist undo the trouble with my eggs, my hormones, and… — Monica Starkman Copy Share Image
For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
“Somewhere here I want to bring in a learning which has been most rewarding, because it makes me feel so deeply akin… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have… — 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
“This wish to satisfy someone greater than the Self, to be found acceptable, to belong at last, is a struggle familiar to… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“Secondary structural dissociation involves one ANP and more than one EP. Examples of secondary structural dissociation are complex PTSD, complex forms of… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
“Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSE The Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994 "Extending these local figures to a… — Lloyd Demause Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there. "I don't… — Milton H. Erickson Copy Share Image
“I believe that the Earth is the most likely place for love to flourish. We are surrounded by life and beauty, and… — Ron Kurtz Copy Share Image
Want to discover the truth about deception in therapy? Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson have collected a formable collection of old pros… — Jeffrey K. Zeig Copy Share Image
“just a bunch of words. He needed to feel that force move him from the inside before he could have any faith… — Phil Stutz Copy Share Image
“The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The purpose behind discerning the nature of love is not to satisfy ivory tower discussions or to produce fodder for academic delectation.… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Men choosing abuse need to be connected to choices. They are not powerless. Take them back to the beginnings of their relationship.… — Andrew King Copy Share Image
“[T]echnique has a different meaning for the novice than for the expert. One needs technique in learning to play the piano but… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy:… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access.… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective,… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion… As well might we expect a patient to recover without food… — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“Bit by bit, Dr. Driscoll helped me to peel away the layers of protection I had built up over the years. The… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The vocation of psychotherapy confers a few unexpected fringe benefits on its practitioners, and the following is one of them. It impels… — Thomas Lewis 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
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