In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“The establishment of an authentic relationship with patients, by its very nature, demands that we forego the power of the triumvirate of… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The mind-body clash has disguised the truth that psychotherapy is physiology. When a person starts therapy, he isn't beginning a pale conversation;… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two… — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
“I've always regarded therapy more as a calling than a profession, a way of life for people who care about others.” — Irvin D. Yalom 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
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
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — Anonymous 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
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
I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when… — Amy Bloom 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 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
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
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
“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
“Psychotherapy consists of deciphering the code and bringing the flag, or symptoms, down in the process. By contrast, medications only suppress symptoms.… — Joseph Glenmullen Copy Share Image
“There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissociative disorders. Diagnoses need to be… — carol broad Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: I see what you're saying but people in psychology don't have a uniform agreement… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
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
“Somehow the disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians. The flamboyance of the multiple, her intelligence and… — Lynn I. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must… — Scott E. Spradlin Copy Share Image
“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces… — Tyler Hamilton 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
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
Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover… — Richard Clarke Cabot 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
“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up” — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“The shame, embarrassment, feeling of low self-worth, and scores of "labels" we give ourselves are not fitting. I am beginning to see… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church… — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
“Petra shook her head. "I knew you were stupid, because you became a talk-therapy shrink, which is like becoming a minister of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth,… — Eda LeShan Copy Share Image
“Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about… — Irvin D. Yalom 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
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
