Quotes About Therapy

A few words of criticism and I can bear a grudge for three days at a time, convinced she is plotting against me. None of this has diminished despite years of self-analysis, therapy and "writing as healing", as some of my students used to call the attempt to make at. Nothing has cured me of myself, of the self I cling to. If you asked me, I would probably say that my problems are myself; my life is my dilemmas. I'd better enjoy them, then.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

Being able to tour and experience all of the stuff that comes from touring, and then being able to come back to Nashville, it's almost like therapy to be able to get into a session and talk about all of the things that I'm going through. It's so much more real to me.

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

I had a year of therapy and I swear to God, I went in that with a certain level of self-love, but not enough to keep me out of bad relationships, not enough to try and save people who were toxic for me, not enough to recognise when something was bad, to walk away.

A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.

Once you start laughing, you start healing.

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

Because of my training as a clinician, I believe that this kind of moment, if it happens between people, has profound therapeutic potential. We can heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

In a world out of control, the only institutions that grant him an illusion of control, that seem to offer any safety, shelter or warmth, are the "private" institutions: religion, marriage/ family, and, most recently, psychoanalytic therapy. But, as we have seen, the family is neither private nor a refuge, but is directly connected to — is even the cause of — the ills of the larger society which the individual is no longer able to confront.

In Uncommon Therapy, Jay Haley

Therapeutic Metaphors, by David Gordon

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Our hysterical patients suffer from reminiscences.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Don't they give you happy pills in this place?

It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist.

I have trust issues." "I know. I'm on a mission to cure you of that.

I really love getting hot stone massages. They really help me relax and it's so soothing for your muscles.

I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life.

The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas.