“...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
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy. — Irving Kirsch 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
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
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
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
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
“There is one true property of romantic love: it never stays - evanescence is a part of the nature of an infatuated… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are extraordinary tools, when used with psychotherapy, because in one day you can let go of so much, and have insight… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
In top-down processing, which is normally what we do in psychotherapy, we talk about our problems, our symptoms, or our relationships. And… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass.… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“Bowlby's conviction that attachment needs continue throughout life and are not outgrown has important implications for psychotherapy. It means that the therapist… — Jeremy Holmes Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Too often the survivor is seen by [himself or] herself and others as "nuts," "crazy," or "weird." Unless her responses are understood… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“I recently consulted to a therapist who felt he had accomplished something by getting his dissociative client to remain in her ANP… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“The patient brings with him into therapy all the failures and suspicions and losses he has experienced through his life. The defensive… — Jeremy Holmes 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
“When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who… — Scott E. Spradlin Copy Share Image
“If she learned anything in school she learned this, courtesy of Albert Ellis, father of the cognitive-behavioral paradigm shift in psychotherapy. Other… — A. S. A. Harrison 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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 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
“Friendship between therapist and patients is a necessary condition in the process of therapy - necessary, but not, however, sufficient. Psychotherapy is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“First, psychotherapy is an art. It is not a science (the human-beings-are-laboratory-rats mentality of the behaviorist notwithstanding). A friend of mine, a… — Jack S. Willis Copy Share Image
“Psychotherapy works by going deep into the brain and its neurons and changing their structure by turning on the right genes. Psychiatrist… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Humans need their lives to make sense and to have meaning and purpose. Lack of meaning and purpose can override both the… — Paul Valent Copy Share Image
“Our society’s love affair with mechanical devices that respond at a button-touch ill prepares us to deal with the unruly organic mind… — Thomas Lewis 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
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
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