In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.
The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.
I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.
There is no 'ultimate goal of therapy.' Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therapy is one of the most fundamental errors of our field. To me, that concept is rather arrogant, as if therapists were some kind of spiritual experts who knew what human beings are supposed to be like.
I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.