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Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run. -- Irving Kirsch
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society. -- James Hillman
Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship. -- Hans Eysenck
Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool. -- H. L. Mencken
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 -- 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
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. -- Thomas Szasz
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. -- Thomas Szasz
The reinterpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are that belated objectives of nearly all Psychotherapy -- Brock Chisholm
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. -- Hans Eysenck
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
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 actual therapy. -- Jed Diamond
Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living. -- Eda LeShan
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. -- Albert Ellis
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds. -- Thomas Keating
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. -- Hans Eysenck
The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. -- Hans Eysenck
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious -- Edward F Edinger
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? -- Michael Torke
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now. -- Jim Harrison
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. -- Nathaniel Branden
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. -- Terence McKenna
Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes. -- Leston Havens
One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy. -- Glen Duncan
I think psychotherapy saves lives and is hugely meaningful and I think that one of the unfortunate aspects of prescription drugs working well is that people tend to think that's enough. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God. -- Smokey Robinson
I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it. -- Howard Stern
The continuing struggle was once described in the following metaphor by a patient who had successfully completed a long course of psychotherapy: 'I came to therapy hoping to receive butter for the bread of life. Instead, at the end, I emerged with a pail of sour milk, a churn, and instructions on how to use them.' (138) -- Sheldon B. Kopp
Psychedelics are extraordinary tools, when used with psychotherapy, because in one day you can let go of so much, and have insight into so much. Sometimes more than in a year of traditional psychotherapy. I think they should be used in psychotherapy. But I don't know who should be entrusted with the toolbox - priests or psychiatrists? That is the difficulty. -- Laura Huxley
Power is required for communication. To stand before an indifferent or hostile group and have one's say, or to speak honestly to a friend truths that go deep and hurt these require self-affirmation, self-assertion, and even at times aggression. ... My experience in psychotherapy convinces me that the act which requires the most courage is the simple communication, unpropelled by rage or anger, of one's deepest thoughts to another. -- Rollo May
At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one. -- Marianne Williamson
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress. -- Ed Asner
There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. -- Thomas Szasz
It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself. -- Jack Kornfield
What the Ellison Foundation and I are hoping to encourage is a more holistic approach to psychiatry, in which psychotherapy is put on as rigorous a level as psychopharmacology. -- Eric Kandel
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy. -- James Hillman
One of the reasons I've never done intensive psychotherapy or any of that stuff is that if there's anything in me that needs fixing, I want to know that I can rely on my own intuition to fix it. -- Kate Winslet
Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen. -- David D. Burns
Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now! -- David Cassidy
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet. -- Karl Marlantes
Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. -- Thomas Szasz
I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around. -- Amy Bloom
Most therapists do not appear to know how to pinpoint and reverse therapeutic resistance - to head it off at the pass. Instead, they try to persuade the patient to change, or to do the psychotherapy homework, while the patient resists and 'yes-butts' the therapist. The therapist ends up feeling frustrated and resentful, and doing all the work. -- David D. Burns
Love is nature's psychotherapy. -- Eric Berne
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk. -- Eric Hodgins
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free. -- Rollo May
Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer. -- Jed Diamond
The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories. -- Thomas Szasz
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) -- Jonathan Kellerman
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. -- A. S. Byatt
To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy. -- Irving Kirsch
'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it. -- Thomas Szasz
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
The primary treatment modality for DID is individual outpatient psychotherapy.Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision -- James A. Chu
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
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
J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike. -- Jeffrey K. Zeig
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
Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy. -- Irving Kirsch
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
I had been introduced to psychotherapy, in which the doctors let you talk, talk, talk, until you find the source of your problem or find another doctor. -- Gene Tierney
The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering. -- Carl Jung
For me, the term "psychotherapy" is limiting. It implies that we work with mind and emotions, but excludes the body and pays scant attention to the spirit, soul, and broader environmental issues. -- Jed Diamond
The person who really needs the psychotherapy (...) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist's office by his mother, but the mother, to releive her anxieties about his homosexuality. -- Frank Kameny
I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy. -- Samantha Morton

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