Behave Quote by Jurgen Habermas

“that aspect of the patient’s behaviour that betrays his awareness of the presence of an object that is not himself. No”

— Anonymous

“The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to…

— Adolf Grünbaum

At first the analysing physician could do no more than discover the unconscious material that was concealed from the patient, put it together, and,…

— Sigmund Freud

The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

— Jacques Lacan

There's a classic medical aphorism: 'Listen to the patient; they're telling you the diagnosis.' Actually, a lot of patients are just telling you a…

— Jed Mercurio

“It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about the process,…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Her favorite stepping-aside technique was to lay out a dizzying mountain of complex steps and then pronounce the conclusion self-evident. Excuse me? Things that…

— Charlotte Beers

“When a client enters therapy with a prior diagnosis, it might be difficult for the therapist to think outside of the box presented. One…

— Deborah Bray Haddock

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and…

— Hippocrates

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out,…

— A. C. Benson

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

— Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

“The following steps have been identified to guide clinicians in the development of case formulations (Greenberg & Goldman, 2007): 1. Identify the presenting problem.…

— Leslie S. Greenberg