Frieda Fromm-Reichmann famous quotes

07-18-2025

People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.
-- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

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Psychiatric services - that is, the attempt to help a person overcome his emotional difficulties in living - are priceless if successful or worthless if they fail.
-- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

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The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.
-- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

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The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform.
-- Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

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Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.
Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann famous quotes

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