Helpful Quote by Pamela Stephenson

...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

— Norman Doidge

“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

“Therapy must begin with empathy - not a patronizing sympathy, but instead one that is unflinching (Marotta, 2003). Empathy of this sort is highly…

— Christine A. Courtois

I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

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

— Rollo May

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

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

If there is one thing I've learned in thirty years as a psychotherapist, it is this: If you can let your experience happen, it…

— John Welwood

An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be…

— Carl Rogers

“Empathy requires being attuned to the patient's perspective and understanding how the illness is woven into this particular persons' life. Last--and this is where…

— Danielle Ofri

“Most psychotherapies are designed to patch up wounded people and then throw them back into the battle of oppositions. They guide people in how…

— Robert A. Johnson

“The therapist could not budge the patient from her syllogism. She replayed it throughout the hour, 'stuck in a single organization of events.' Seeing…

— Ellen Ullman