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Quotes About Therapy

The things most people need to learn in therapy are related to attachment, abandonment, love, and fear. We are trying to access basic emotional processes that are organized in primitive and early-developing parts of the brain. The language of these emotions is also very basic; it is the language of childhood. The more complex the language and ideas you bring into therapy, the more likely you are to stimulate your clients' intellectualizing defenses.
~ Louis Cozolino
Successful therapists learn to be 'amygdala whisperers' by leveraging the social brain in order to help clients face their fears.
~ Louis Cozolino
Those are the only things which really seem to do him any good.
~ Ron Chernow
She managed to clear her throat. I'm sure this is impossible for you to comprehend, Deuce, but somehow, some way, without formal therapy or controlled substances, every single resident in the town of Rockingham, Massachusetts, has managed to survive your long absence. Every. Single. One.
~ Roxanne St. Claire
therapy, a quick assuagement. But there
~ Ruth Rendell
I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.
~ Steve Almond
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.
~ Susan Polis Schutz
There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.
~ Andre Agassi, Open
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.
~ AARON T. BECK
Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.
~ Robert Tisserand
Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.
~ Tim Dorsey
I loved challenging myself every day. The weight room was my therapy for everyday life stresses. No matter what I was doing I always wanted to be the best.
~ Ronnie Coleman
Humor is a great way to relieve stress.
~ Christina Maslach
A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
~ Bruce Forsyth
It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.
~ Judith Lynne Hanna
In times of stress drawing is a way of relieving tension.
~ Gene Black
Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it, you can't give up the fight.
~ Larry Hagman
For some constitutions work is the cure for all ills.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He used to say to his melancholia patients: You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
~ Alfred Adler
Every child in the world imagines that its phantasy world is unique to itself. Psychiatry knows that the joys and terrors of private phantasies are a common heritage shared by all mankind. Our fears, guilts, terrors and shames could be interchanged, from one man to the next, and none would notice the difference. The therapy department at Combined Hospital had recorded thousands of emotional tapes and boiled them down to one all-inclusive all-terrifying performance in Nightmare Theatre.
~ Alfred Bester
The Sedative Garden atop the Therapy Building was a triumph of therapeutic planning. Every perspective, every color, every contour had been designed to placate hostility, soothe resistance, melt anger, evaporate hysteria, shore up melancholia and depression.
~ Alfred Bester
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
The only way for me to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
It helped to write things down. It ordered your thoughts and if you were lucky revealed feelings you didn't know you had.
~ Alice Hoffman