Top 4 Quotes by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation.

Needs, Patient, Explanation

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

Fashion, Insecure, Men

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience.

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Life, People, Therapy

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

Successful, Emotional, Overcoming

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1960). “Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy”, p.67, University of Chicago Press