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Source: Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning

“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.”

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Author:Robert Johnson

“Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights countervailing against our dysfunctional and incoherent and humanly destructive culture, its "therapists" have been virtually all shills or agents for this culture, trying to accommodate their patients to a fundamentally unhealthy and insane way of life.”

“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.”

“Advocates of psychiatric drugs often claim that the medications improve learning and the ability to benefit from psychotherapy, but the contrary is true. There are no drugs that improve mental function, self-understanding, or human relations. Any drug that affects mental processes does so by impairing them.”

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Book:Your Drug May Be Your Problem, Revised Edition: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications

Source: Your Drug May Be Your Problem, Revised Edition: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications

“Work 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.”

Wells Might Work Opinion Cooking Patient Psychotherapy

Author:Richard Clarke Cabot

“Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.”

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Author:Steve de Shazer

“When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.”

Writing Firsts Persons Said War Would Be Novel Feet Cold Pages Down And Sat Vietnam Wet Sheer Vietnam War Sock First Person Psychotherapy Great American Drivel Cold Feet

Author:Karl Marlantes

“I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.”

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Author:William S. Burroughs

“A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.”

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Book:Bioenergetics

Source: Bioenergetics

“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.”

Change Views Seeing Perspective Standing Determine Angle Standpoint Viewpoints Psychotherapy Where You Stand

Author:Steve de Shazer

“Our capacity to move forward as developing beings rests on a healthy relationship with the past. Psychotherapy, that widespread method for promoting mental health, relies heavily on memory and on the ability to retrieve and organize images and events from the personal pastIf we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us—to write the first draft and then return for the second draft—we are doing the work of memory.”

“The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.”

People Purpose Existential Psychotherapy

Author:Rollo May

“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.”

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Book:The Letters of Milton H. Erickson

Source: The Letters of Milton H. Erickson

“The basic ingredients of psychotherapy are religion, rhetoric, and repression, which are themselves mutually overlapping categories.”

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Book:The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression

Source: The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing As Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression

“Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.”

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Author:Alexander Lowen

“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.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“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.”

Thinking Needs Children School Growth Teach Psychology Overcoming Psychotherapy Disturbance School System

Author:Albert Ellis

“It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.”

“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.”

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Author:Richard Clarke Cabot

“Love is nature's psychotherapy.”

Love Love Is Psychotherapy

Author:Eric Berne

“The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk.”

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Author:Eric Hodgins

“I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!”

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Author:David Cassidy

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