Psychotherapy is the psychiatric mystification and management of problems in living renamed as treatments.
Psychotherapy provides conversations, not cures; cures of souls, now called 'successful psychotherapies' are what clients who engage in such conversations create, or fail to create, out of their contacts with psychotherapists.
Psychotherapy is a myth, a metaphorical treatment that stands in the same relation to medical treatments as editing television programs stands to repairing television sets.
Psychotherapy is a psychotherapeutic system like religion. Thus, the psychotherapist takes up the same task as the Lord: to heal the suffering of the human mind, of the human psyche or the human soul.
Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you’re involved in a genuine conversation, you’re listening, and talking—but mostly listening.
Psychotherapy is not advice. Advice is what you get when the person you’re talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away.