Failure Quote by Hans Eysenck

In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

— Hans Eysenck

“psychopaths are resistant to treatment regimens; in fact, they often become more dangerous after treatment as they learn how to manipulate the system. Studies…

— Steven Briggs

“Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion. Present company…

— Frank Herbert

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

“It is really interesting to notice that the people that suffer the most with mental problems are also the ones who resist receiving therapy…

— Robin Sacredfire

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

— H. L. Mencken

“A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too easily. You…

— Lawrence Durrell

The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the person really…

— Maia Szalavitz

An essential question regarding treatment is whether psychodynamic therapy is effective for specific disorders.

— Robert J. Waldinger

Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to…

— Richard Clarke Cabot

If persons in the untreated...group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported...In the treated group, however, deaths which occur before…

— Hardin B. Jones

“Psychotherapy works for the treatment of depression, and the benefits are substantial. In head-to-head comparisons, in which the short-term effects of psychotherapy and antidepressants…

— Irving Kirsch