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
“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
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
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 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
“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
“The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients,… — Irvin D. Yalom 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“The dogged implicitness of emotional knowledge, its relentless unreasoning force, prevents logic from granting salvation just as it precludes self-help books from… — Thomas Lewis 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
“I have always found quite useful Freud's formulation that the dream borrows building blocks from the day residue, but that for images… — Irvin D. Yalom 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
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is… — Peter Breggin 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
