Authentic self Quote by Sylvia Brownrigg

You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing: the therapist…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The border between personal and transpersonal experience is a complex region. It is a territory often filled with spiritual and religious views. Within psychology…

— Richard J. Borden

“The patient brings with him into therapy all the failures and suspicions and losses he has experienced through his life. The defensive forms of…

— Jeremy Holmes

“The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.”

— Michael Adzema

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries…

— Julian Baggini

“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

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I…

— Frida Kahlo

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open…

— Rachel McAdams

I'm on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I'm trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy - it's…

— Julia Sawalha

I was trained professionally to connect with people as a therapist. That's job number one, having a empathetic regard towards someone who is sitting…

— William Fitzsimmons

When my marriage broke up, I went to three separate therapists, and each was worse than the last. I can only speak for myself.…

— Diana Rigg

The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention…

— Jack Kornfield