Quotes of: Psychotherapy Keyword

First, psychotherapy is an art. It is not a science (the human-beings-are-laboratory-rats mentality of the behaviorist notwithstanding). A friend of mine, a philosopher of esthetics, defines art as: anything that people treat as art. So it is with ps...

Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Hans Eysenck

So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

At their peak, religion and psychotherapy become one.

Marianne Williamson

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

Personality is a strategy devised by a child. Our true, original self lies under our personality, in the transpersonal ground of our being, at our core.

Psychedelic Healing: The Promise of Entheogens for Psychotherapy and Spiritual Development

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

You can't anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117)

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

When psychotherapy began, it was about the practitioner listening to a patient and interpreting what the patient said, in order to afford the patient insights about his or her psyche. But now we understand that the main curative part of psychotherapy...

Love

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 ...

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Ed Asner

Crises marked by anxiety, doubt, and despair have always been those periods of personal unrest that occur at the times when a man is sufficiently unsettled to have an opportunity for personal growth. We must always see our own feelings of uneasiness ...

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be f...

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients

The ideological premise, however, "can" not be defective; it is sacrosanct. ... Whatever does not seem right, whatever does not fit, must be explained by something wrong outside of the ideology; for its perfection is beyond all doubt. In (t)his way t...

Münchhausen's Pigtail, or Psychotherapy & "Reality"

...The world's benefactor has no choice; he is the surgeon who wields the healing scalpel. He does not want the violence, but the reality (which he has invented) drives him to use violence, in a way, against his will. Throwing a bomb into a crowded d...

Münchhausen's Pigtail, or Psychotherapy & "Reality"

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

Existential Psychotherapy

There is a difference between what I actually want and what I want to have fantasies about. (...) There is a part of my imagination which is a playground, a playground in which I am queen. It fulfils my need to have a fantasy land, and that need may ...

Falling For Therapy: Psychotherapy From A Client's Point Of View

The most insidious of the premature responsibilities that may be foisted onto some children is the expectation that the child is somehow supposed to take care of his parents, rather than the other way around. Parents who were themselves raised with t...

If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients