Psychotherapy (n.) 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 (n.) rests on one question no doctor can ignore: how can you treat something you do not understand? It needs a science of the psyche, not a theory about it.
Psychotherapy (n.) can kill by its explanations: explain everything physically and you destroy the patient's spiritual development; explain everything spiritually and you violate the natural man — more than a few suicides lie at the door of such mistakes.
Psychotherapy (n.) that claims to be more than a mere cure of symptoms has as its goal the rounding out of the personality into a whole.
Psychotherapy (n.) made the same mistake as the old medicine that attacked the fever, believing it to be the noxious agent.
Psychotherapy (n.) is at bottom a dialectical encounter between two psychic wholes, in which knowledge is only a tool and the goal is the disappearance of egohood.
Psychotherapy (n.) dabbled in is playing with fire: it may run into a latent psychosis and bring it to full flower.
Psychotherapy (n.) aims not at an impossible state of happiness but at steadfastness and philosophic patience in face of suffering.
Psychotherapy (n.) drives its specialist, oddly, to universalism — to the complete overcoming of the specialist attitude.
Psychotherapy (n.) demands the whole man — ars requirit totum hominem: the doctor must go to the limits of his own possibilities, or the patient cannot follow.
Psychotherapy (n.) warns against too much healing zeal: let no day pass without humbly remembering that everything is still to be learned.
Psychotherapy (n.) avoids psychic murder in the name of therapy only by a natural reserve that stops before the mystery of the patient's difference — for the ultimate cause of a neurosis is something positive to be safeguarded.
Psychotherapy (n.) is a craft in which no one is absolutely right, since the psyche judges itself — have you ever heard of a hammer beating itself?