Categories Quote by Thomas Szasz

Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what…

— Thomas Keating

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

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

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

— Dion Fortune

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

— Thomas Szasz

“Therapy entails the application of conceptual machinery to ensure that actual or potential deviants stay within the institutionalized definitions of reality, or, in other…

— Peter L. Berger

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 -- 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

Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person…

— Milton H. Erickson

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 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 is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully…

— Irvin D. Yalom