Quotes About Therapy

Family systems theory offers therapists an invaluable way of understanding their clients' strengths and problems—clarifying the familial rules, roles, myths, communication patterns, and boundary issues that defined their clients' development.

I eventually came to define my marriage counseling, no matter what the cultural mix, as trying to help people separate so that they would not have to "separate.")

Continuously learning, and learning is the core principle and pursuit of life since it works as an effective antidote therapy for the ego-feeling.

Surely, tears are incredible and best therapy and remedy for sorrow, grief, and pain that, attack and occupy one's life.

The effective, and sufficient remedy for stress and depression is pure love-therapy, not only traditional and natural medication.

The smile is such a free therapy and a natural remedy for vexation, which always has positive effects.

when highly sensitive patients had experienced a trauma, sexual or otherwise, they had been unusually affected and so developed a neurosis.

Alas, non-therapy relationships sometimes can't withstand the task of undoing childhood-based insecurity (the avoidance of intimacy or the compulsion to merge and fear of being abandoned).

repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.

The worst thing about medicine is that one kind makes another necessary.

La música siempre hace bien, desata los nudos con que los nervios se aferran a las emociones.

Al final decidí que, con veterinario o sin él, el concierto me relajaría. La música siempre hace bien, desata los nudos con que los nervios se aferran a las emociones.

By not encouraging injuries, a mother avoids having to close wounds later on. Erika's mother prefers inflicting injuries herself, then supervising the therapy.

Anyway, how could therapy even work on me, when I was so far from sharing Svetlana's therapist-like belief that people should be healthy and well-adjusted, that they should go to bed at the same time every night, even if they were reading or having an interesting conversation, or that it was great and life-affirming to go hiking with some guy, or to get married? Of course therapy worked for someone who believed those things.

Clinical diagnoses are important, since they give the doctor a certain orientation. But they do not help the patient. The crucial thing is the story. For it alone shows the human background and the human suffering, and only at that point can the doctor's therapy begin to operate

Neurosis, he said, in the nearest he came to a definitive definition, is the suffering of a soul that has not found its meaning.

The real therapy only begins when the patient sees that it is no longer father and mother who are standing in his way, but himself . .

The capacity to be alone is a valuable resource when changes of mental attitude are required. After major alterations in circumstances, fundamental reappraisal of the significance and meaning of existence may be needed. In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

With few exceptions, psychotherapists have omitted to consider the fact that the capacity to be alone is also an aspect of emotional maturity.

Anhedonia', which means the clinical inability to experience happiness.

Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.

REM sleep can help us process emotional stress.

Psychotherapy is about an internal process of transformation. Gender therapy is not simply about surgery or hormones or even transition. It is not really about 'becoming' something as much as it is about allowing the false parts of the self to recede so that an authentic self can emerge.