Quotes About Therapy

Closure was a dumb notion made up by psychologists who justified people going to them for ever, the concept that one day you'd get over something and be able to say, 'OK, that's in the past, I'm better, I've moved on.' Bullshit.

You will usually discover that the creative process itself is truly the most healing part of any art therapy experience.

A Jewish friend told me he never went to a Jewish therapist because it's too easy to assume everything dysfunctional about your family is cultural. Sometimes you need to explain your experiences in order to understand them yourself.

I wanted a Korean American therapist because I wouldn't have to explain myself as much. She'd look at me and just know where I was coming from. Out of the hundreds of New York therapists available on the Aetna database of mental health care providers, I found exactly one therapist with a Korean surname

A garden is the best alternative therapy

My therapist has helped me learn to understand that if you don't unpack your own emotional baggage it's no longer baggage--it's deadweight.

Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.

Giorgio Nardone

antilogías y paradojas, y el recurso a una lógica no lineal y no ordinaria, se estudian y experimentan de manera sistemática como eficaces instrumentos de comunicación.

estratagema que puede ser aplicada a todos los tipos de miedo: impulsar la propia mente a alimentar voluntariamente las fantasías espantosas provoca su anulación. De ahí que esta técnica sea la base de las formas más eficaces de terapia del miedo patológico y de las compulsiones obsesivas (Nardone 2002a, 2005, 2008).

vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.

In the best of all possible worlds, art would be unnecessary. Its offer of restorative, placative therapy would go begging a patient. The professional specialization involved in its making would be presumption. The generalities of its applicability would be an affront. The audience would be the artist and their life would be art.

If purring could be encapsulated, it would be the most powerful antidepressant on the market.

Dreams are free therapy. Consult your inner Freud.

Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night.

...for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are "heal."

Talk is healing. It's the unexamined wound that festers.

If you find light and hilarity in these pages, I strongly recommend a visit to a mental health professional. Otto Penzler

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

I spend a good deal of time doing, for anxiety what's known as exposure therapy where basically you're supposed to confront things that cause you anxiety and learn to tolerate. It's all about learning to tolerate discomfort rather that avoiding anything that might make you feel uncomfortable.

After writing about addiction in a pair of books, I frequently hear from addicts and their family members about serial relapses followed by treatments followed by more relapses. It's not uncommon for addicts to go through a dozen treatment programs.

On May 6, 2013, I started hormone replacement therapy and began transitioning. I was very depressed, which is not uncommon for people with gender dysphoria. Two hours after my first estrogen injection, my depression went away for the first time in my life.

I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from.