Psychotherapy Quotes

57 Psychotherapy quotes by 42 unique authors

It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally… — Scott Stossel
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the… — Hans Eysenck
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover… — Richard Clarke Cabot
Love is nature's psychotherapy. — Eric Berne
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk. — Eric Hodgins
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. — Hans Eysenck
I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble,… — David Cassidy
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious — Edward F Edinger
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself… — Albert Ellis
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem… — James Hillman
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. — Thomas Szasz
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper… — Thomas Szasz
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. — Thomas Szasz
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias… — Kay Redfield Jamison
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
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… — Sheldon B. Kopp
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. — A. S. Byatt
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) — Jonathan Kellerman
Felix believed that the answer to every problem involved penguins; but it wasn't fair to birds, and I was getting tired of teleporting them back… — Rick Riordan
The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly… — David D. Burns
At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one. — Marianne Williamson
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous… — Eric Kandel
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run. — Irving Kirsch
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy. — Irving Kirsch
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated… — Irving Kirsch

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