Quotes About Therapy

I thought psychologists were people who rob, figuratively of course, money from the insecure. But they are not. They are people who are there to help you, and if you find a good psychologist, they will allow you to talk about everything and open up, without the slightest of fears, and that is no easy thing.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

the potential of psychedelics to improve brain function.

When several years ago an NYU colleague mentioned to Ross that LSD had once been used to treat thousands of alcoholics in Canada and the United States (and that Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, had sought to introduce LSD therapy into AA in the 1950s), Ross, who was in his thirties at the time, did some research and was "flabbergasted" by all that he—as an expert on the treatment of alcoholism—did not know and hadn't been told.

Laughter is the best medicine in the world.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.

I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I suppose a cry does us all good at times

If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the read of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.

If you cannot read Shakespeare, or Melville, or Toni Morrison because it will trigger something traumatic in you, and you'll be harmed by the reading of the text because you are still defining yourself through your self-victimization, then you need to see a doctor.

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love

I've recently discovered that cooking is a great way to distract yourself from your problems while providing a sense of accomplishment. You feel like you're doing something useful even though a few hours later you eat all the evidence.

To take good care of ourselves, we must go back and take care of the wounded child inside of us. You have to practice going back to your wounded child every day. You have to embrace him or her terderly, like a big brother or a big sister. You have to talk to him, talk to her. And you can write a letter to the Little child in you, of two or three pages, to that you recognize his or her presence, and will do everything you can to heal his or her wounds.

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.

Sometimes, taking a job is like going to a shrink or something, where you get to know yourself better.

I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Experience…shows beyond any doubt that patients can develop an amazing faculty of keen self-observation if they are bent on understanding their own problems.

Beverly pushes down and down and down into the muscles under his tattoo to release the knots.