Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals” — Asa Don Brown Copy Share Image
“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up” — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed. — Harold George Koenig Copy Share Image
It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing. — Jay Haley Copy Share Image
“Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness.” — Cloe Madanes Copy Share Image
“We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.” — Jane Hersey Copy Share Image
“Petra shook her head. "I knew you were stupid, because you became a talk-therapy shrink, which is like becoming a minister of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run. — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“The shame, embarrassment, feeling of low self-worth, and scores of "labels" we give ourselves are not fitting. I am beginning to see… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient. — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover… — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby -… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“As Louis Cozolino Ph. D., observes, a consistent theme of adult psychotherapy clients is that they had parents who were not curious… — Peg Streep Copy Share Image
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must… — Scott E. Spradlin Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“There were nights when I left the sessions physically and emotionally drained after hearing the anguish pour out like blood from a… — Jonathan Kellerman 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
“The word dialectic (in dialectical behavior therapy) means to balance and compare two things that appear very different or even contradictory. In… — Matthew McKay 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
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? — Michael Torke Copy Share Image
“It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
