"A basic axiom of psychodynamic psychotherapy is that it is noncoercive--no one can make anyone else do anything."
-Glen Gabbard

"In a dialogue in which the therapist aims at understanding in such a way that the patient can feel understood, the therapist is not trying to figure out what is being hidden or concealed, but is attempting, jointly with the patient, to grasp what it is that the patient is experiencing." A. Ornstein

“Once an analyst has grasped the idea that his responsiveness can be experienced subjectively as a vital, functional component of a patient’s self-organization, he will never listen to analytic material in quite the same way."
-Robert Stolorow