Quotes About Therapy

Al margen de su imposibilidad, el concepto de mirar activamente la degradación de la materia, que incluye la de nuestro propio cuerpo, es una saludable terapia estoica que ayuda a aceptar el paso despiadado del tiempo.

El narciso que se empereza en la contemplación de su propia belleza, o de su propia importancia, o de su propia desdicha, y morosamente la paladea con ayuda de un analista, descansa confortablemente en el diván de su tristeza.

Salzman didn't believe that telling your troubles helped make them better, which was why he had never undertaken psychotherapy.

Acceptance and commitment therapy, a variant on cognitive therapy, attempts to teach people to accept rather than change their emotions and make decisions within the context of what they value, as opposed to letting negative feelings control their behavior.

Prolonged exposure therapy, a variant of flooding, attempts to maintain a high level of fear arousal, but its key premise is that all aspects of fear, as defined by Lang's three response systems (behavioral avoidance, physiological responses, and verbal behavior), have to be reduced in order for exposure to be effective.

The therapy thus starts by identifying negative appraisals, memories, trigger stimuli, and cognitive and behavioral factors that preserve symptoms. Then the therapist helps the client modify the excessive negative appraisals, elaborate the memories, discriminate triggers that lead to reexperiencing them, and eliminate cognitive and behavioral avoidance.

Singing is probably the better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too.

The therapist, on the other hand, is commissioned to generate happy endings. This is made difficult by the complicated fact that while the therapist must try to save his patient from tragedy, he must also know the tragic factors in life and face them unflinchingly.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

Traditionally, the Socratic tradition in philosophy has a therapeutic function, which is to dispel the horrors of the unknown through reasoned argument. What cannot be tolerated in this tradition is the possibility of a world that cannot be known, or a world that is indifferent to our elaborate knowledge-producing schemes.

But the truth is that I am a pessimist… except when writing about pessimism. I've managed to make pessimism a form of therapy.

Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.

I think acupuncture, reflexology, Reiki, and Shiatsu massage are remarkable, and I used them for years to help with injuries and as a preventative measure.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

I love a long, deep-tissue massage where they really get in there and remove the knots!

There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well - that's anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

It took years of psychotherapy before I even considered dating. I lost weight, replaced my glasses with contact lenses and felt a lot more confident. But I find it really hard to hold down a relationship.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

An ice bath for me is always going to work.

If I ever feel like I need to see someone to help me adjust to whatever life situation I'm seeing, I'll go. You're sick. When you're physically ill, you go to the doctor. It's the same thing about your mental. If you feel you're starting to get sick, you go see someone who can help you.

Music makes illness retreat.

People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.