Quotes About Therapy

Denying the reality of my experience—that was the most harmful. Not being able to trust anyone was the most serious effect. . . . I know I acted in ways that were despicable. But I wasn't crazy. Some people go around acting like that because they feel hopeless. Finally I found a few people along the way who have been able to feel OK about me even though I had severe problems. Good therapists were those who really validated my experience.

Therapy requires a collaborative working relationship in which both partners act on the basis of their implicit confidence in the value and efficacy of persuasion rather than coercion, ideas rather than force, mutuality rather than authoritarian control.

Experimental studies consistently point out that the popular remedy for anger, ventilation, is really worse than useless. In fact, the reverse seems to be true: expressing anger tends to make you even angrier and solidifies an angry attitude.

Pearsall also describes an eight-year-old girl who received the heart of a murdered child. After the transplant, the girl started having nightmares about the man who had killed her donor. Her mother then took her to a therapist. Details she reported in therapy sessions were so precise—time, weapon, the murderer's clothes, crime scene—that they notified the police. Astonishingly, the girl's information led police to the murderer.

Geniul" este o invenÅ£ie terapeutic? ce ne împiedic? s? murim de egalitate într-o lume f?r? via?? de apoi.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

I spend 2 hours a week in an infrared sauna.

Whenever you're coming off a serious injury, it takes time to heal.

I think we're all insecure about something, but there's a way to deal with those emotions healthily by seeking professional help earlier on.

Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy or other methods of healing. Their repeated abuse ultimately eats away at their self-esteem, driving them to drugs, prostitution, AIDS, and in many cases, death.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

Feeling and talking through the pain--the humiliation of being an unloved child, the anger toward the cold mother, the anxiety of turning into her, the fear of maternal retribution for hating her--became the healing salve. Where therapy was successful, these women came to understand that their mothers, who were unfortunate, inadequate, insecure people, did not have the power to hurt them anymore. If their mothers continued to act destructively, they could walk away from them.

For fifteen thousand dollars, the psychiatrist has relieved me of what I had: fifteen thousand dollars...

the course of treatment and the scope of the method of treatment employed.

It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

Viendo las cosas con la objetividad que da el tiempo, no andaban tan errados mis doctores ni tan mala era su fórmula. Al que está en guerra consigo mismo hay que aflojarle el yo obstinado. ¿Cómo? Muy simple. Puesto que el yo no es otra cosa que recuerdos, borrándole el recuerdo. Así la cinta queda lista para grabar de nuevo.

American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

Hypnosis has been around a long time. It's a phenomenon that has been used as a form of therapy. The term hypnosis was coined by a man named Dr. James Braid back in the nineteenth century. The field of clinical hypnotherapy has been developing ever since. In the late 1950s, the American Medical Association approved hypnosis instruction for inclusion in medical schools. And hypnosis is considered by clinicians to be a serious topic in the healing arts.

You know I think that going into therapy is a very positive thing, and talking about it is really helpful, because the more you talk the more your fears fade, because you get it out.

He didn't necessarily think that it was okay, but when a psychiatrist says 'okay', it just means 'I understand what you're saying.

A parlare di sé, c'è il rischio di non finire più. So bene di aver dimenticato questo, quello e quell'altro ancora. È importante? Difficile sapere cosa sia davvero importante. La cosa migliore è decidere che la terapia fatta sul passato finisce oggi, e che è venuto il momento di prendere un biglietto per il futuro.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" [Matthew 22:37, 39 KJV].

To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say "I'm a writer" out loud.