After Quote by David D. Burns

Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce…

— Anonymous

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful…

— Jack Kornfield

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

— Jim Harrison

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

— Thomas Szasz

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

— H. L. Mencken

Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings.

— Marc Cooper

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they…

— Albert Ellis

Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose…

— Eda LeShan

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what…

— Thomas Keating

In top-down processing, which is normally what we do in psychotherapy, we talk about our problems, our symptoms, or our relationships. And then the…

— Peter A. Levine

Far from the stereotype that psychodynamic treatments are appropriate only for the 'worried well,' a growing body of evidence points to their efficacy in…

— Robert J. Waldinger