Communication Quote by Thomas Lewis

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

— Thomas Szasz

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

“The United States alone sports an inventive spectrum of psychotherapeutic sects and schools: Freudians, Jungians, Kleinians; narrative, interpersonal, transpersonal therapists; cognitive, behavioral, cognitive-behavioral practitioners;…

— Thomas Lewis

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

— Jonathan Kellerman

“Like meditation, psychotherapy has the potential to reveal how much of our thinking is an artificial construaction designed to help us cope with an…

— Mark Epstein

“This, in the therapy world, is what we call cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance. Translation? You get so tangled up in one voice, one…

— Ronen Dancziger

“The person of the therapist is the converting catalyst, not his order or credo, not his spatial location in the room, not his exquisitely…

— Thomas Lewis

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said…

— Peter Cameron

“These independent systems of the subconscious may be regarded as complexes in the classic sense. They are islands of unresolved conflict that have been…

— John G. Shobris

“To me, the essential task of any therapy is the same as that of lie - to recognize, experience, and affirm our common humanity…

— Lynn I. Wilson

“Therapy, like life, is a process -- a journey toward greater self-awareness and healing -- where the in-the-moment experience is often as enriching as…

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“keep in mind that therapy is a deep and comprehensive exploration into the course and meaning of one’s life; given the centrality of death…

— Irvin D. Yalom