“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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 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
“ Maybe I needed that somebody else could cry over my pain, to become able to cry over it myself. Nobody ever… — Giovanni Liotti Copy Share Image
“I believe "technique" is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist's unique encounter with the patient. [E]very course of therapy consists of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“With the subject of work off limits, they lapsed into a silence they couldn't recover from, leaving Joanna to wonder how she… — Diana Stevan 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“A great many of our patients have conflicts in the realm of intimacy, and obtain help in therapy sheerly through experiencing an… — Irvin D. Yalom 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
