199 Quotes About Psychotherapy

a pszichológus lefektetieléd a babát akkoramint a lányok akiketa bácsikáid fogdosnak szívesenmutasd meg hol volt a kezea baba lábai közé mutatszarra a pontra amitkiujjazott belőledakár egy vallomásthogy érzed magada fogaddalpiszkálod kia gombócota torkodbólhogy azt mondhasd jóligazából eltompultam- szerdai ülések

Woman's nature and man's knowledge matters in Samsara.

[W]aiting for attitudes to change stalls therapy whereas changing behavior leads quickly to a change in attitude, which in turn can lead to fulfilling needs and further better behavior.

The patient rather than the therapist must decide whether or not his behavior is irresponsible and whether he should change it. [...] If a man thinks it is all right to overeat and be fat, no obesity treatment will work.

The skill of therapy is to put the responsibility upon the patient, and after involvement is established, to ask him why he remains in therapy if he is not dissatisfied with his behavior.

Happiness occurs most often when we are willing to take responsibility for our behavior. Irresponsible people, always seeking to gain happiness without assuming responsibility, find only brief periods of joy, but not the deep-seated satisfaction which accompanies responsible behavior.

As part of becoming involved the therapist must become interested in and discuss all aspects of the patient's present life. [...] We are interested in him as a person with a wide potential, not just as a patient with problems. In fact, one of the best ways not to become involved is to discuss his problems over and over.

Indeed, analyst Robert Bak calls orgasm "the perfect promise between love and death," the means by which we repatriate separation of mother and child through the momentary extinction of the self. It is true that few of us consciously climb into a lover's bed in the hope of finding our mommy between the sheets. But the sexual loss of our separateness (which may scare people so badly they cannot have orgasm) brings us pleasure, in part, because it unconsciously repeats our first connection.

[T]he harvest of psychotherapy is not cure - surely, in our field, that is an illusion - but instead change or growth.