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Patient Quotes by Sheldon B. Kopp
- The therapist can interpret, advise, provide the emotional acceptance and support that nurtures personal growth, and above all, he can listen. I do not mean…
- When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped…
- The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to…
- And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really…
- I remember a group therapy session when one of the patients was reluctantly turning his corner. He would accept it, he said, but he wouldn't…
More Patient Quotes
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. — Charles Baudelaire
- I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of… — Robert Benchley
- But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They… — Anna Benson
- In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of… — Alfred Adler
- We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. — Alfred Adler
- Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his… — Alfred Adler
- Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other.… — Donald Berwick
- Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient. — Ambrose Bierce
- What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe,… — Nellie Bly
- Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a… — Jo Brand
- For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal… — Geraldine Brooks