The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud , also…

— Rollo May

“Friendship between therapist and patients is a necessary condition in the process of therapy - necessary, but not, however, sufficient. Psychotherapy is not a…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they cannot abide…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“I believe "technique" is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist's unique encounter with the patient. [E]very course of therapy consists of small and…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The patient brings with him into therapy all the failures and suspicions and losses he has experienced through his life. The defensive forms of…

— Jeremy Holmes

I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political,…

— James Hillman

Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass. Instead, they…

— David D. Burns

“I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP throughout her…

— Alison Miller

You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there. "I don't know what…

— Milton H. Erickson

Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider on an…

— Jonathan Haidt

In top-down processing, which is normally what we do in psychotherapy, we talk about our problems, our symptoms, or our relationships. And then the…

— Peter A. Levine

As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist has a…

— Diane Ackerman

Reports that online cognitive behavioral treatment can be as effective as in-person psychotherapy suggest that technology will expand access, extend the impact of a…

— Thomas R. Insel

“Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must be competent…

— Scott E. Spradlin

“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings which you…

— Alison Miller