Quotes About Therapy

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

Come on and take your medicine!

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.

You cannot be a good ACT therapist if you take words to be right, correct, and true rather than asking "How effectual are they?

To Borody and a small band of like-minded brethren who believe in the power of poop, we are standing at the threshold of a new era in medicine. Borody sees the benefits of fecal therapy as "equivalent to the discovery of antibiotics." But first, there is much skepticism to overcome.

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

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

You still go to therapy?" "Nah. I gave up years ago." "Mental health ins't for everyone.

You still go to therapy?" "Nah. I gave up years ago." "Mental health isn't for everyone.

You're thinking about one woman while trying to reach another, and despite this apparent abundance of women, you feel lonely and desolate as hell, and, almost unconsciously, you drive to the house of a third, and the third woman is your mother. It has to be unconscious, because conscious, you'd know right away that it's a big mistake. Somewhere, there's a therapist sitting alone in his office, staring wistfully at his door, wishing for a patient like you.

You didn't invent grief. My shrink once told me that." "Really? Your shrink told you about me?

Grief can be catered just like anything else.

A good therapist will tell you the truth about what he thinks. (That is not the same thing as telling you that what he thinks is the truth.) Then at least you have the honest opinion of at least one person. That's not so easy to get. That's not nothing. That's key to the psychotherapeutic process: two people tell each other the truth—and both listen.

IF OLD MEMORIES STILL UPSET YOU, WRITE THEM DOWN CAREFULLY AND COMPLETELY

The best treatment for alcoholism is religious conversion.

Anxiety and depression cannot be easily treated if the sufferer has unpredictable daily routines.

so I took the benzodiazepines.

Even if I was "traumatized," what would be the point of having survived it only to have to pay someone else to complain to about it, rather than turn it into something positive?

If anything, Freud showed that we are both more immoral and more moral than we are aware of. This kind of "non-judgmentalism," in therapy, is a powerful and liberating technique or tactic—an ideal attitude when you want to better understand yourself.

The sexual abuse of children is distressingly common.156 However, it's not as common as poorly trained psychotherapists think, and it also does not always produce terribly damaged adults.157 People vary in their resilience. An event that will wipe one person out can be shrugged off by another. But therapists with a little second-hand knowledge of Freud often axiomatically assume that a distressed adult in their practice must have been subject to childhood sexual abuse.

You have to get along with other people. A therapist is one of those other people. A good therapist will tell you the truth about what he thinks. (That is not the same thing as telling you that what he thinks is the truth.) Then at least you have the honest opinion of at least one person. That's not so easy to get. That's not nothing. That's key to the psychotherapeutic process: two people tell each other the truth—and both listen.

Freud had a point. He was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him. But there are disadvantages to the detached and somewhat distant approach recommended by Freud. Many of those who seek therapy desire and need a closer, more personal relationship (although that also has its dangers). This is in part why I have opted in my practice for the conversation, instead of the Freudian method—as have most clinical psychologists.