Psychotherapy Quotes
Collection of top 71 famous quotes about Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy Quotes & Sayings
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Psychotherapy seeks for an improvement in neurotic balance. Letting go, however, eliminates it all together.
— David R. Hawkins
Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
— Abigail Van Buren
I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
Life is a purposeful action.
— Asa Don Brown
Psychotherapy is the art of finding the angel of hope in the midst of terror, despair and madness.
— Cloe Madanes
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.
— Irving Kirsch
In psychotherapy it is the myth of knowing this why as precondition for change which defeats its own purpose.
— Paul Watzlawick
Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their own anyway.
— Irvin D. Yalom
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.
— Thomas Szasz
The loss of my child broke my spirit.
— Asa Don Brown
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.
— Viktor E. Frankl
I've always regarded therapy more as a calling than a profession, a way of life for people who care about others.
— Irvin D. Yalom
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
— Stefan Molyneux
Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?
— Irvin D. Yalom
If ever there was an avian candidate for psychotherapy, the male blue heron is our nominee.
— Carl Sagan
It is better for us to see the destination we wish to reach, than the point of departure
— Jules Verne
Psychotherapy is an art enlightened by wisdom, theory and research.
— Barbara Temaner Brodley
The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
— Judith Lewis Herman
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
— Jonathan Kellerman
Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer.
— Jed Diamond
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 the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.
— H.L. Mencken
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
— Jim Harrison
You were lost in the darkness of the world until you asked for light. And then God sent His Son to give it to you. Psychotherapy-3. III. 8:9-13.
— Robert Holden
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
— Nathaniel Branden
When writing functions in this fashion as self-directed psychotherapy, we err if we demand that people be entertained and enlightened by the process.
— Lawrence Block
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
— Thomas Szasz
Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals
— Asa Don Brown
Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.
— Patricia Love
At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.
— Marianne Williamson
Gestalt means whole, and so are you.
— Jan Deelstra
Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others.
— Asa Don Brown
Love is nature's psychotherapy.
— Eric Berne
We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl"He Counts Their Tears" by Mary Ann D'Alto — Mary Ann D'Alto
Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion ... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.
— Richard Clarke Cabot
Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.
— Mary Pipher
There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.
— Asa Don Brown
He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.
— Ben Aaronovitch
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious
— Edward F Edinger
In therapy the individual learns to recognize and express his feelings as his own feelings, not as a fact about another person.
— Carl R. Rogers
The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy
— Brock Chisholm
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
— Irving Kirsch
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.
— Thomas Szasz
Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.
— Asa Don Brown
The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.
— Wilhelm Reich
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
— Terence McKenna
Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.
— Harold George Koenig
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
— Wilhelm Reich
Psychotherapy is largely concerned with the debilitating or anti-social consequences of past punishments.
— Aldous Huxley
Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.
— Hans Eysenck
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.
— Dion Fortune
In role-playing games, SF and fantasy have exploded into psychotherapy.
— Brian W. Aldiss
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
— Frederick Salomon Perls
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
— Stefan Molyneux
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.
— Eric Hodgins
