A good psychotherapy writer imagines the questions clinicians have and tries to answer them.

Psychodynamic therapy is valuable because it has been an incubator of psychotherapeutic innovation for almost a century. Most of the contemporary psychotherapies, and many developed and discarded along the way, have emerged from it.
- Summers & Barber (2010)

It is useful to acknowledge that we are often sailing without a reliable compass, but it is not useful to be rudderless.
- Gabbard & Westen, 2003

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A theory of therapeutic action must describes both 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠 (the aims of treatment) and 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑒𝑠 are likely to be useful in facilitating those changes (techniques).
- Gabbard & Westen

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The shorter the time and the more complicated the circumstances in which one can do therapeutic work, the more critically important are the therapist’s working hypotheses.
- Nancy McWilliams, 𝑃𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛

Maybe because the sound isn't working at 8 out of 10 psychoanalytic events.

What if the opposite of negative thinking is not positive thinking but critical thinking?
- Elliot Jurist

Read Gabbard, you will

Therapy is a safe emergency because of the supportive structure in which stressful learning takes place.
- Louis Cozolino

(Cozolino notes that the term 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 was used by Fritz Perls to describe the treatment environment therapists strive to create)

The Notorious DBT

Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.
- Leston Havens