Childhood Quote by Thomas Keating

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

— Thomas Szasz

The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.

— Thomas Szasz

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful…

— Jack Kornfield

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose…

— Eda LeShan

“P-2.in.1. Psychotherapy is a process that changes the view of the self. At best this “new” self is a more beneficent self-concept, but psychotherapy…

— Foundation for Inner Peace

Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less…

— Jed Diamond

Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings.

— Marc Cooper

For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention…

— Jed Diamond

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

— Jim Harrison

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

Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

— Dion Fortune