I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“I wish I had a magic wand to make things better, but therapy doesn't work that way.” — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“{B]eware of empty compliments - make your support as incisive as your feedback or interpretations.” — 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
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“...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
Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of… — Marc Cooper 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
I did psychotherapy for about six years. I stopped going regularly when I'd finished 'Elemental,' which I think probably says something. I… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
“Catholic education and law schools provide me with a lot of miserable people as psychotherapy clients. I should be grateful. These people… — Brad Blanton 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
“Classically, the patient went into psychotherapy because she was neurotic from the suppression of her perverse desires, now she goes into psychotherapy… — Edward St. Aubyn 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“The "apparently normal personality" - the alter you view as "the client" You should not assume that the adult who function in… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“Fui acusado de ser um utópico, de querer eliminar o desprazer do mundo e defender apenas o prazer. Contudo, tenho declarado claramente… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
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