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  • 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. In that sense, psychotherapy belongs in the schools.

  • Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

    "On Self Discovery and Self Responsibility". Interview with George H. Smith, reason.com. May 1973.
  • 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. 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

    Unique   Profound   Pills  
    Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.869, Oxford University Press
  • Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them.

    Peter Breggin, David Cohen (2007). “Your Drug May Be Your Problem, Revised Edition: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications”, p.94, Da Capo Press
  • This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

    Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com
  • I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.

    Source: progressive.org
  • 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.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.
  • 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, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden
  • Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything.

  • 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 to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

    Unique   Bed   Needs  
    Milton H. Erickson, Jeffrey K. Zeig, Brent B. Geary (2000). “The Letters of Milton H. Erickson”, p.17, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers
  • Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

    Mind   May   Divine  
    Dion Fortune (2016). “The Machinery of the Mind”, p.60, Dion Fortune
  • Want to discover the truth about deception in therapy? Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson have collected a formable collection of old pros whose compelling prose sheds light on an important, but previously unexplored, subtext that permeates psychotherapy. Don't fool yourself: The roadmap to avoid being duped is contained within.

  • Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings.

    Long   Mind   Subtle  
  • I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • I am a huge advocate of prescription drugs given wisely and for the right reasons and the right diagnosis and also psychotherapy.

    Drug   Diagnosis   Reason  
    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 30, 2009.
  • I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

    Years   Doe   Literature  
    Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.
  • Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies heavily on memory and on the ability to retrieve and organize images and events from the personal pastIf we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us—to write the first draft and then return for the second draft—we are doing the work of memory.

  • The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

    Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge
  • It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.

    Jay Haley (1969). “The power tactics of Jesus Christ, and other essays”
  • Love is nature's psychotherapy.

  • Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

    Running   Long   Type  
    "Antidepressants: The Emperor’s New Drugs?" by Irving Kirsch, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2010.
  • You are only allowed to treat the content of your intuition as evidence if the intuition stays after you have exposed it to cognitive psychotherapy; in some cases you have to reject it even if it does indeed stay.

    Intuition   Doe   Treats  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • 'Statistics' show that 66% of clients are cured with psychotherapy; what statistics don't show is that 72% are cured without it.

  • 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.

    Intuition   Needs   Done  
    "Kate Winslet Opens Up About Divorce From Sam Mendes In British Vogue" By Ashley Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.
  • 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 (1980). “Existential Psychotherapy”, p.406, Basic Books
  • When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

    Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press
  • It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

    Art   Skeletons   People  
  • 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.

    War   Writing   Feet  
    "A Vietnam Epic Uncovers Old Wounds: An Interview with Karl Marlantes". Interview with Evan James, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.
  • Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

  • I've been through many years of psychotherapy, psycho-drama, I've taken risks in my life. I've had trials and tribulations just like every body else. You have to really think about who you are. You can't just go through life and sail threw.

    Drama   Taken   Thinking  
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