Psychotherapy Quote by Irvin D. Yalom

“Sometimes people just need to talk. They need to be heard. they need the validation of my time, my silence, my unspoken compassion. They…

— Richard Wagamese

“Silence can bring us into alignment with our thoughts and feelings and help us to hear the quiet spiritual voice of our intuition.”

— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg

“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Most therapists grew up struggling to be loved and accepted by others. Because of these early experiences, many of us find it difficult to…

— Louis Cozolino

The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention…

— Jack Kornfield

“What a therapist is doing is reading/writing your thoughts.”

— Dr. Poison King

“Silence allows people to put thoughts into words. Some people might need several minutes to put thoughts into words. Silence may indicate the person…

— Richard E. Dodge

“... the silent client may be experienced as withholding, oppositional, and sulking or as holding the therapist "hostage" in ways that elicit resentment and…

— Christine A. Courtois

“No matter how much the therapists over the eighteen months have told me that talking will help, I don’t believe them.”

— Ruth Dugdall

We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind.…

— Deepak Chopra

“The quality of silence in my life speaks to the health of my soul/mind. If the silence is deafening, suppressive, terrifying... (it speaks to…

— L.M. Browning

“When we discover the secret of being inwardly at worship while outwardly at work, we find that the soul's silence brings us to God…

— Anonymous