Inference Quote by Virgil Miller Newton

One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

— Chris Argyris

Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

— Harold Pinter

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

— Dennis Potter

Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be quite reliable,…

— Hilary Kornblith

In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

— Hans Eysenck

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

— Abraham Maslow

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the…

— Celia Green

“It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about the process,…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I'm a huge proponent of therapy and analysis, but it's something that, in a nonprofessional way, can be abused.

— Noah Baumbach

“I believe "technique" is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist's unique encounter with the patient. [E]very course of therapy consists of small and…

— Irvin D. Yalom

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

— Wilhelm Wundt

“The Scientific Method is a wonderful tool as long as you don't care which way the outcome turns; however, this process fails the second…

— Cristina Marrero