Quotes About Therapy

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

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.

Art is a gun and medicine at the same time.

Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music.

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

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

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you've got more energy just from the music. And, I've never seen it fail. It's good for ya; real good for ya.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

two different kinds of Japanese psychotherapies, one based on getting people to stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the other based on getting people to practice gratitude.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

Grief is itself a medicine.

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

At these moments sufferers desperately want to escape from their holes, the silence and loneliness, and return to the world we share with others… At these moments, language, the means of expression we are most comfortable with, becomes truly therapeutic – a form of medicine that has the power to relieve our suffering

The challenge for us is to realise our unity with all life, and even with the inanimate world around us. The seas with their currents, the atmosphere and the continents of the earth are all in motion, stirring with their own kinds of life. Our malaise as a civilised people comes in large measure from our ability to distance ourselves from nature and from one another. A real therapy is one with a vision, not only of the individual person, but also of how the whole planet is to be healed.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you might be feeling at a given time could be encapsulated in the song selection. You made mixtapes that corresponded to emotional states, and they'd be avaliable to pop into the deck when each feeling needed reinforcing or soothing. The mixtape was your friend, your psychiatrist, and your solace.

The mixtapes we made for ourselves were musical mirrors. The sadness, anger, or frustration you might be feeling at a given time could be encapsulated in the song selection. You made mixtapes that corresponded to emotional states, and they'd be available to pop into the deck when each feeling needed reinforcing or soothing. The mixtape was your friend, your psychiatrist, and your solace.

I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family ' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!

Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

Peut-on se soigner en se confiant à un tableau ? On parle bien d'art-thérapie, de créer pour exprimer son malaise, pour se comprendre à travers les intuitions de l'inspiration. Mais c'était différent. Pour Antoine, la contemplation de la était un pansement sur la laideur. Il en avait toujours été ainsi. Quand il se sentait mal, il allait se promener dans un musée. Le merveilleux demeurait la meilleure arme contre la fragilité.

If depression, loneliness, and social anxiety maintain themselves through a vicious circle of negative experiences, negative thinking, and self-defeating behavior, it should be possible to break the circle at any of several points—by changing the environment, by training the person to behave more constructively, or by reversing negative thinking. And it is. Several therapy methods help free people from depression's vicious circle.