Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist…

The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of…

— Brock Chisholm

When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“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

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

— Irving Kirsch

“Kandel argues that when psychotherapy changes people, 'it presumably does so through learning, by producing changes in gene expression that alter the strength of…

— Norman Doidge

“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

Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less…

— Jed Diamond

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention…

— Jed Diamond

“I often urge patients to project themselves into the future and to consider how they can live now so that five years hence they…

— Irvin D. Yalom

One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing,…

— Kate Winslet

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

— Johnny Carson

The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

— Hans Eysenck

To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.

— Irving Kirsch

“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients' thoughts to…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started…

— Flora Rheta Schreiber