Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Quotes & Sayings

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation. — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

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

People don't come to therapy for exclamation; they come for experience. — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

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