Quotes About Therapy

Science can now illuminate why approaches like psychodrama, 12-step programs, group therapy, journaling, bodywork, yoga, exercise, and massage work; why one-to-one therapy can help us learn a new style of attachment; why changing the way we live and the nature of our relationships can change the way we think and feel, and vice versa; and why quick fixes don't work but why a new design for living does.

They may become what family systems theorists call the "symptom bearer," symptomatic on behalf of the whole family. Children who act out, for example, can have the effect of getting warring parents to pull together in order to address what's going on for the child; thus, the family buys some more time, the focus is diverted from the parent's or the family's underlying problems, and homeostasis, albeit a costly one, is again achieved.

Because emotional and sensory memory are processed by and stored in the body, the most successful forms of therapy for trauma are experiential.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Relieve stress through hysterical screaming.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Music is my one opportunity to let out how I'm feeling when I'm not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It's just venting.

I cry all the time - at work, at the shrink's, with my lady. 'The Notebook' killed me. 'Up' destroyed me.

You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.

In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

They had to recognize, Woods warned, that the law wanted to keep psychopathy and psychosis apart. If the psychopath were ever accepted as legally insane, then crime, judgment, and punishment would be replaced by antisocial act, therapy, and convalescence.

You treated me the way you like to be treated when you grieve, and now I'm treating you the way I like to be treated. We prescribe our own medicine for each other.

Basicamente los sermones me parecian una terapia de grupo a cargo de un terapeuta incompetente que se remitia a una teoria psicologica inventada por vacas.

number of emotionally wounded and crippled people is so vast, and the number of qualified professionals so small in comparison

Do you think it would be easier to treat someone who was delusional or someone who only believed that she was?

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

But I wasn't there to treat the incurable ills of megalomania.

I don't think we've researched the importance of laughter enough, how good it feels to laugh and how therapeutic it is to be able to laugh at ourselves and others and not take life so seriously

I proved to you that psychiatry is an exact science!" "An exact science?!" "Yes, you owe me exactly one hundred and forty-three dollars!

Sometimes all we need is a little pampering to help us feel better...

Mutt, a mentally ill brother who is setting fire to a load of expensive things from the house he grew up in and was physically abused and neglected in) "Tuck (mutt's brother is being asked), aren't you going to stop him?" 'Why?' 'Well' - she waved her hand across the house - 'couldn't you two do something good with all this?"...... "Yeah, but the money we earned wouldn't buy as much therapy as that fire....