Quotes About Therapy

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

The point of therapy is get unhooked, not to thrash around on how you got hooked.

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.

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

I believe that this neglected, wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, "No bablo ingles."

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Acupuncture: proof that stabbing someone can make things better.

Life without acupuncture is pointless.

I tried acupuncture. But I didn't really get the point.

Acupuncture: a jab well done.

Acupuncturist: because badass miracle worker isn't an official job title

Well, hell, Eve. If you need to run off to you dressmaker, or take your cat to therapy, Peabody and I can handle this minor matter of murder. Eve lips stretched in a vicious smile. Bite me, Casto.

Maybe if they played those poppy, jingling Christmas songs on an endless loop in the tank it would be enough.

Licensed, regulated, taxed, safe. People pay for therapy, for physical training," he added, nodding at the board. "For spiritual guidance, and so on and so on. People pay for all manner of basic needs, and others train to provide those needs. Sex is a basic need.

Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.

I spoke to the Sporting Chance clinic and I was seeing a guy in London every one or two weeks for an hour-long meeting about my gambling.

One thing I can say as far as people from black communities dealing with trauma or PTSD is putting some trauma centers or some type of therapy sessions and some after-school programs for the kids, so they can have a real outlet to express themselves.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

I'm not a 'suffer in silence' type; I'm a 'let's throw money at the problem' type - I've done reflexology, reiki, psychotherapy, counselling. I've never actually had analysis, but I'd like to try that sometime.