Psychotherapy Quotes

57 quotes by 42 authors

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. — Nathaniel Branden
One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I… — Kate Winslet
Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner… — Chellis Glendinning
I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not… — Samantha Morton
The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. — Hans Eysenck
But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's tendency to actualize… — Carl Rogers
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? — Michael Torke
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. — Jim Harrison
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind. — Dion Fortune
Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective, even for very… — Irving Kirsch
The person who really needs the psychotherapy (...) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist's office by his mother, but the… — Frank Kameny
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy. — Viktor E. Frankl
Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights… — Kenny Smith
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent… — Brock Chisholm
Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are… — Peter Breggin
Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as… — Richard Clarke Cabot
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down… — Karl Marlantes
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first… — William S. Burroughs
Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies… — Patricia Hampl

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