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Quotes About Therapy

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I told my psychiatrist, "Doc, I keep thinking I'm a dog." He told me to get off his couch.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
This fun visualisation can be used to help clients discover internal resources they already have to head for adventure, face fears and overcome obstacles. It is important to prepare clients for the tough world they face outside the therapy room. Life is unfair, and it is important that clients learn to see difficulties as opportunities to conquer and learn from.
~ Roger Day
This visualisation enables clients to find a safe place in their imagination where they can come at any time when things become difficult.
~ Roger Day
This visualisation empowers clients to express their feelings on paper. Clients can write and say things, bringing hurts into the light that may have been buried for many years. It is important to remember that it is the client's letter, and each client can interpret this visualisation in his or her own unique way.
~ Roger Day
The Littlest Dolphin is a therapeutic story about a dolphin struggling but not giving up. The story shows the importance of support and encouragement from others. Listening to this story can give clients strength to carry on.
~ Roger Day
garden Materials needed Paper, felt-tip pens, pencils, ballpoint pens. Instructions The therapist leads the visualisation: Get into a comfortable position and close your eyes if you want to. Come with me. We are going into the garden. (PAUSE) It is morning in the middle of winter. (PAUSE) Put warm clothes on. (PAUSE) Coat. (PAUSE) Boots. (
~ Roger Day
What keeps me from seeking Catherine's help is that unlike other psychological problems, what happened to Amy, and to all of us, is real. The monster is real. And while there may be strategies that help Ginny and me feel a little better rather than a little worse, we will never feel right again. No analysis or therapy will change that.
~ Roger Rosenblatt
A young man came for psychotherapy because, though he was intellectually very competent and seemed superficially to be very successful, his spontaneity was almost completely blocked.
~ Rollo May
Terapinin amac? uyumdur demek, teraistin, toplumun psi?ik polisi olmas? demektir; bu role mesela ben ?iddetle kar?? ç?k?yorum
~ Rollo May
Xyrophobia - fear of razors.
~ Romilla Ready
After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'
~ Ronnie Shakes
I believe Eddy's book serves as therapy. Like this book, or notebook, like yours.....Eddy talks, but Eddy also listens.
~ Louise Erdrich
There is not a single philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, different therapies, as it were.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
And it is essential that therapists arrive at this knowledge, for the world view of patients is always an essential part of their problems, and a correction in their world view is necessary for their cure. So I say to those I supervise: "Find out your patients' religions even if they say they don't have any.
~ M. Scott Peck
It has been further suggested that the absence of love is the major cause of mental illness and that the presence of love is consequently the essential healing element in psychotherapy. This
~ M. Scott Peck
Any genuinely loving relationship is one of mutual psychotherapy.
~ M. Scott Peck
It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health.
~ M. Scott Peck
This process of active clinging to an outmoded view of reality is the basis for much mental illness. Psychiatrists refer to it as transference.
~ M. Scott Peck
It is because they possess this courage, on the other hand, that many psychoanalytic patients, even at the outset of therapy and contrary to their stereotypical image, are people who are basically much stronger and healthier than average.
~ M. Scott Peck
The essential ingredient of successful deep and meaningful psychotherapy is love. ... Intensive psychotherapy in many ways is a process of reparenting.
~ M. Scott Peck
words of Carl Jung, "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
~ M. Scott Peck
You cannot be mother, therapist and healer-assist to six children and expect perfection, Jahir said. Of course I can, she answered. She snorted. I'm a nurse. It's what we do.
~ M.C.A. Hogarth
I enjoy cooking. It's therapy for me. Louise's therapy is her rose garden. You may note, Polly, that we don't have any roses.
~ Madeleine L'Engle