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.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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.
Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.
The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)
Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.
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.
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.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
Love is nature's psychotherapy.
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.
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