What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put… — Eric Kandel 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
“A vida brota a partir de milhares de fontes vibrantes, entrega-se à todos que a agarram, recusa-se a ser expressa em frases… — Wilhelm Reich 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
As anyone who has received or dispensed psychotherapy knows, it's a profession whose mainspring is love. Nearly everyone who visits a therapist… — Diane Ackerman 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
“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
“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
“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
“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'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
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
“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
“To make matters worse, everyone she talks to has a different opinion about the nature of his problem and what she should… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Somewhere here I want to bring in a learning which has been most rewarding, because it makes me feel so deeply akin… — Carl R. Rogers Copy Share Image
“This wish to satisfy someone greater than the Self, to be found acceptable, to belong at last, is a struggle familiar to… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have… — Irving Kirsch 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
“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
“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
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
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
Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the… — James Hillman 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
“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
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
One strand of psychotherapy is certainly to help relieve suffering, which is a genuine medical concern. If someone is bleeding, you want… — James Hillman 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
Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of… — Rick Riordan 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
“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
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
“Men choosing abuse need to be connected to choices. They are not powerless. Take them back to the beginnings of their relationship.… — Andrew King 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
“[T]echnique has a different meaning for the novice than for the expert. One needs technique in learning to play the piano but… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The idea of using current distortions to re-create the past was part of an old, now abandoned, vision of the therapist as… — 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
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