Psychotherapy Quotes

• I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Reading
  • Stories
  • Enjoyed

• 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
  • Issues
  • Psychotherapy
  • Yorkshire

• Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Friendship
  • Prostitution
  • Psychotherapy

• At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Religion
  • Peak
  • Psychotherapy

• The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Recovery
  • Rate
  • Psychotherapy

• The re-interpretation and eventually sic eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely.

  

  Brock Chisholm
  • Faith
  • Psychotherapy
  • Rational thinking

• The primary focus of psychotherapy involves the integration of feelings (affect) and thinking (cognition), resulting in personal growth.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Integration

• What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

  

  Brock Chisholm
  • Civilization
  • Morality
  • Eradication

• The irony is that I don't think we took a step backwards to make 'Group Therapy'. I think we took a step forward because it's a lot more complicated to make that kind of album. I think that album was far more produced than 'American Apathy', and it had a lot more harmony vocals and lots of intricate parts musically speaking.

  

  Edsel Dope
  • Album
  • Irony
  • Vocals

• 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
  • Night
  • Commitment
  • Week

• The goal of the research on my ward was to determine whether psychotherapy or medication was the best way to treat young people who had suffered a first mental breakdown diagnosed as schizophrenia. The talking cure, an offshoot of Freudian psychoanalysis, was still the primary treatment for mental illness at MMHC. However, in the early 1950s a group of French scientists had discovered a new compound, chlorpromazine (sold under the brand name Thorazine), that could “tranquilize” patients and make them less agitated and delusional. That inspired hope that drugs could be developed to treat serious mental problems such as depression, panic, anxiety, and mania, as well as to manage some of the most disturbing symptoms of schizophrenia.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Goal
  • Treatment
  • Patients

• 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
  • Childhood
  • Names
  • Century

• The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious.

  

  Edward F Edinger
  • Goal
  • Conscious
  • Psychotherapy

• 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
  • Purpose
  • Feelings
  • Adventures

• The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it.

  

  Jonathan Kellerman
  • Art
  • Say
  • Psychotherapy

• Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Understanding
  • Psychedelic
  • Fraud

• The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.

  

  Eric Hodgins
  • Psychotherapy

• It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed young woman, for about three months in weekly psychotherapy, dealing with the ravages of her terrible history of early abuse. One day I opened the door to my waiting room and saw her standing there provocatively, dressed in a miniskirt, her hair dyed flaming red, with a cup of coffee in one hand and a snarl on her face. “You must be Dr. van der Kolk,” she said. “My name is Jane, and I came to warn you not to believe any the lies that Mary has been telling you. Can I come in and tell you about her?” I was stunned but fortunately kept myself from confronting “Jane” and instead heard her out. Over the course of our session I met not only Jane but also a hurt little girl and an angry male adolescent. That was the beginning of a long and productive treatment.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • History
  • Career
  • Woman