Quotes About Therapy

Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist.

Writing poetry is letting go— once the words leave your pen they're out of your soul and the therapy has begun.

...psycho-analysis — that is... confession without absolution.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

They say a psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than any other method. But who has ever claimed that psychoanalysis should be used always and everywhere?

Wouldn't it be great if retail therapy was covered by health insurance.

Skipping is one of nature's best antidepressants.

To many, the cigarette is a portable therapist.

Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition

In relation to therapeutic issues where we are manufacturing our own pain, the pain must be understood as a failure of creativity. The response to a certain situation has rigidified. We have lost our ability to create new responses for new situations. We do not understand how we have participated in creating our pain. We are no longer able to recognize new situations when they occur.

Mason had that made," Deborah said of the puzzle. "One of those custom ones. He wanted Ruby to be able to put the family back together again. Thought it would be Ã¢â'¬Â¦ hmm, therapeutic. But it just sits there. And sits there.

He had not been right, had not been normal. And then his natural predisposition had been encouraged and further corrupted by "environmental factors." That was what his first psychologist had called it. "Environmental factors." Like being raped by a thirty-three-year-old man at the age of seven, Doctor? she'd wanted to yell. Is that an "environmental factor?

The therapy had at first yielded no results, no reactions from the catatonic child.

Instead of using therapy to try and reduce their fear and anger, people now celebrated these destructive emotions, labeling themselves as politically active rather than emotionally dysfunctional.

Le travail, c'est le meilleur des médicaments.

Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face.

An old cardboard box: you think it but you don't say it. Leftovers, that are swept up and glued together. I am your alipte , I say, I am your personal trainer and masseuse. I oil you. But there's no ointment against the bad thoughts and phantasms.

That ewe's life had been saved not by medicinal therapy but simply by stopping her pain and allowing nature to do its own job of healing. It was a lesson I have never forgotten; the animals confronted with severe continuous pain and the terror and shock that goes with it will often retreat even into death, and if you can remove that pain amazing things can happen. It is difficult to explain rationally but I know that it is so.

too much info, keeping up), breakdowns and frustrations in the school systems, taxpaying, bureaucracy, hospitals, and making ends meet. You see, Michael, at last therapy is going to have to go out the door with the client, maybe even make home visits, or at least walk down the street. Jim

Psychiatry today is less a psychotherapeutic enterprise than a pharmacological crapshoot

Shame ain't a spontaneous emotion; shame is an induced emotion.

Lawrence S. Kubie's book Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process.