Psychotherapists Quotes

• No hay nada bueno ni malo, pero el pensamiento hace que sea así.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspiración, Positivo, Felicidad

  Hamlet' (1601) acto 2, esc. 2, l. [259]

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• If there is one thing I've learned in thirty years as a psychotherapist, it is this: If you can let your experience happen, it will release its knots and unfold, leading to a deeper, more grounded experience of yourself. No matter how painful or scary your feelings appear to be, your willingness to engage with them draws forth your essential strength, leading in a more life-positive direction.

  John Welwood

  Love, Years, Scary

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• What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Teacher, Parent, Vision

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• Identify the problem.”)
  I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.

  Shoma Morita

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Imperfect Person

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• I became a psychotherapist because that's where people will unburden themselves, where they will show what is in their hearts.

  Rollo May

  Heart, People, Shows

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• The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

  Carl Jung

  Mistake, Views, Hands

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces.

  Carl Jung

  Clergymen, Clergy, Force

  Modern Man in Search of a Soul Ch. 1

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• God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

  Thomas Keating

  Sublime, Psychologist, Psychiatrist

  Fuente: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Mi padre es médico, profesor de psiquiatría, y mi madre es psicoterapeuta.

  Ben Barnes

  Dad, Doctors, Professors

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• I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Years, Work Out, Way

  "Mi cuerpo y mi alma". Entrevista con Laura Potter, www.theguardian.com. 30 de mayo de 2009.

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• A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature of an evolving society.

  Erving Polster

  Effectiveness, Growth, Achieve

  Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). "La terapia Gestalt integrada: contornos de la teoría y la práctica".

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• ...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

  Norman Doidge

  Mind, Helping, Patient

  Norman Doidge (2007). “The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science”, p.221, Penguin

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• The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

  Alan Watts

  Giving, Community, Trying

  "Psychotherapy, East and West" by Alan Watts, (p. 7), 1961.

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• Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

  Alexander Lowen

  Needs, Suits, Theory

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• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  Laura Benanti

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Thinking, Serious, Impression

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• More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

  James McGreevey

  Children, Kids, Shoes

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• I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

  Roald Dahl

  Clever, Kids, Needs

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• The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Pain, Insightful, Stories

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• The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  People, Inspire, Health Professionals

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.532, Shambhala Publications

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• Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Personality, Age

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• Espero ser el sueño de un psicoterapeuta. He pasado suficientes horas en terapia.

  Sia Furler

  Sueño, Horas, Suficiente

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Mind, Battle

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1958). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: The case of Schreber, papers on technique and other works”

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• But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before.

  Daniel Goleman

  Years, Notable, Increase

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