Alterations Quote by Norman Doidge

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

— Pamela Stephenson

“A therapist is a very smart person who wears glasses and can help you with your problems by asking a lot of questions instead…

— Lenore Look

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to…

— Alan Watts

“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

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in…

— Anonymous

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

— Helena Bonham Carter

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

— Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

— Bernard Berenson

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

— Karl Kraus

I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

— Rollo May

My work as a psychoanalyst is to help patients recover their lost wholeness and to strengthen the psyche so it can resist future dismemberment.

— Carl Jung

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are…

— Carl Jung