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
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
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
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
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
“It wasn't a sign of weakness to tell what happened to me. I feel guilt no longer, only regret. The other emotions… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals” — Asa Don Brown 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
“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
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind,… — David D. Burns 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
It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often… — Carl Rogers 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
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
I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship… — Kay Redfield Jamison 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 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
Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer. — Jed Diamond 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
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious — Edward F Edinger Copy Share Image
