Quotes About Therapy

During the treatment our therapeutic work is constantly swinging backwards and forwards like a pendulum between a id-analysis and a piece of ego-analysis. In the one case we want to make something from the id conscious, in the other we want to correct something in the ego. The crux of the matter is that the defensive mechanisms directed against former danger recur in the treatment as resistances against recovery. It follows from this that the ego treats recovery itself as a new danger.

The effect brought about in the ego by the defences can rightly be described as an 'alteration of the ego' if by that we understand a deviation from the fiction of a normal ego which would guarantee unshakable loyalty to the work of analysis.

La ciencia moderna aún no ha producido un medicamento tranquilizador tan eficaz como lo son unas pocas palabras bondadosas

As the neurosis proceeds, we often find that the endeavour to undo a traumatic experience is a motive of first-rate importance in the formation of symptoms.

Nevertheless it may be admitted that the therapeutic efforts of psycho-analysis have chosen a similar line of approach. Its intention is, indeed, to strengthen the ego, to make it more independent of the superego, to widen its field of perception and enlarge its organization, so that it can appropriate fresh portions of the id. Where id was, there ego shall be. [ Wo es war, soll Ich werden. ]

I told the shrink: It would not make me happy at all not to miss him anymore. You can't hurry love, as the song goes. You can't hurry grief, either.

To draw me out, the therapist asks what I did for the holidays. When I tell him he says gently (he says everything gently), Sounds like that's one of the ways your loss has affected you: not wanting to be with other people. Hating to be with other people, I don't say. Terrified of being with other people.

Now, even as you completed your conquest of Wife One, our friendship grew. It would outlast all my other friendships. It would bring me intense happiness. And I felt lucky; I had suffered, but unlike others I never got my heart broken. (Didn't you? a therapist once goaded me. Wife Two was not the only one who found something unhealthy about our relationship, not was the therapist the only one to wonder if it hadn't been a factor in my remaining single all these years.)

Psychoanalysis considers unwarranted issues as accepted as Truth.

The outside of a horse is good for the inside of man.

Honestly, shopping beats therapy, anytime. It costs the same and you get a dress out of it.

I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through.

Writing is not a hobby. It's the only way I get to shut up the demons in my head.

Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!

I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.

Apt words have power to suageThe tumors of a troubled mind.

Studies have demonstrated that opioids may actually increase pain over the long run and that non-drug treatments are much more effective than opioid therapy. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared that painkiller overdose deaths are an official epidemic.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit, either.

I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

WARNING Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Happiness is a self-therapy or medication that cures all manner of depressions and dejections. Yes! you heard me right. So come on, dare to be happy and remain happy, no matter your present condition. -Emeasoba George