Approach Quote by Eric Kandel

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

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

“The United States alone sports an inventive spectrum of psychotherapeutic sects and schools: Freudians, Jungians, Kleinians; narrative, interpersonal, transpersonal therapists; cognitive, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral practitioners;…

— Thomas Lewis

I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“For too long a time--for half a century, in fact--psychiatry tried to interpret the human mind merely as a mechanism, and consequently the therapy…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostics or therapeutics. The future of psychiatry is…

— Thomas R. Insel

I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political,…

— James Hillman

“The vocation of psychotherapy confers a few unexpected fringe benefits on its practitioners, and the following is one of them. It impels participation in…

— Thomas Lewis

“            Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is…

— Rachel Reiland

“Like meditation, psychotherapy has the potential to reveal how much of our thinking is an artificial construaction designed to help us cope with an…

— Mark Epstein

“Psychotherapy works by going deep into the brain and its neurons and changing their structure by turning on the right genes. Psychiatrist Dr. Susan…

— Norman Doidge