Within Western medicine, physically ill people approach medical helpers in a manner much different from the psychologically ill. P...hysically ill people bring sick bodies to physicians; emotionally ill people bring sick souls to psychotherapists. Differences in these two forms of helping are visible even in the language; the person in need of medical help is always a "patient," while the person in need of psychotherapy is often a "client." Each form of helping has a particular way of approaching the person needing help. Medical patients are treated, taken care of, and made better by the doctor. Psychotherapy clients must be actively engaged in their healing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts.... The question "Why did you start using ...narcotics in the first place?" should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and... rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good prostitutes are good at simulating the care and concern for their clients as individuals that are a part of noncommercial sex...ual relations, or even of showing genuine concern--that ends when the night is over. In this respect, they are much like psychotherapists. A hundred dollars may buy an hour of sympathy and understanding. But no matter how genuine the concern may be, it is money, not concern, that binds the relation, a fact that is sometimes made painfully plain to people in psychotherapy when they are told by their therapist, while deep in the midst of an especially troubling revelation, that the hour is up. If either the client or the prostitute (or therapist) oversteps the implicit contractual bounds of the relation, there is hell to pay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »