Psychotherapy Quotes

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

Work cure 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.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship. - Richard C. Cabot

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? - Michael Torke

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

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

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. - Thomas Szasz

There are great industries of psychotherapy that address our difficulties in 'relationships' -- that pallid, pseudoscientific word the very timidity of which makes substantial attachments impossible. One has to have a tin ear to describe one's great love as a relationship. - Allan Bloom

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 a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. - Thomas Szasz

Patients need to know that depression fluctuates over time and can be treated effectively with medicine and/or psychotherapy. If they can be persuaded to give it time, they may find that they choose differently when making the decision clear of depression symptoms. That's all we want: for doctors and patients to make the best decisions on a case-by-case basis. - Alan Christensen