The Therapeutic Relationship Quotes

“In Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, Jung upholds an approach that tries to find what suits each patient: “Psychotherapy and analysis are as varied as are human individuals. I treat every patient as individually as possible because the solution to the problem is always an individual one" ... In my analysis, I am unsystematic very much by intention. We need a different language for every patient.”
― Jan Wiener, The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning

“In Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, Jung upholds an approach that tries to find what suits each patient: “Psychotherapy and analysis are as varied as are human individuals. I treat every patient as individually as possible because the solution to the problem is always an individual one"... In my analysis, I am unsystematic very much by intention. We need a different language for every patient.”
― Jan Wiener, The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning

“Jung was wholehearted in his view that the analyst’s personality is central to the success of an analysis: “Every psychotherapist not only has his own method—he himself is that method . . . the great healing factor in psychotherapy is the doctor’s personality.” He also stressed the equality of the analytic relationship, “in which the doctor, as a person, participates just as much as the patient. . . . We could say without too much exaggeration that a good half of every treatment that probes at all deeply consists in the doctor examining himself, for only what he can put right in himself can he hope to put right in the patient.”
― Jan Wiener, The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning

“That someone else can be affected by what one says lends substance and reality to one’s feelings. It confers, however briefly, a sense of self and of identity. It makes one feel recognised. It opens the possibility of being understood. It is host to reciprocation.”
― Jan Wiener, The Therapeutic Relationship: Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning