Alliances Quote by Leston Havens

“The development of a working alliance is crucial because it addresses a psychic phobia associated with relationships that is common in complex trauma clients.…

— Christine A. Courtois

“Psychotherapy consists of deciphering the code and bringing the flag, or symptoms, down in the process. By contrast, medications only suppress symptoms. They are…

— Joseph Glenmullen

“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

“Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and efficacy of…

— Judith Lewis Herman

What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as…

— Eric Kandel

“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

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

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

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

— Robert J. Waldinger

“Friendship between therapist and patients is a necessary condition in the process of therapy - necessary, but not, however, sufficient. Psychotherapy is not a…

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

— Irving Kirsch

“The therapist's worldview is in itself isolating. Seasoned therapists view relationships differently, they sometimes lose patience with social ritual and bureaucracy, they cannot abide…

— Irvin D. Yalom