Quotes About Therapy

Sound will be the medicine of the future.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

The medicine of the future will be music and sound.

Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at its mercy.

The first goal is for the clinician to find the patient, and the patient to find the clinician, as both are required for a real alliance.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.

Hypnosis can return an adult to more primitive levels of consciousness and may be related to reported memories of experiences in infancy.

Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

I honestly didn't realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it's true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

saw that my clients very probably had experienced an invalidating environment for much of their lives, and probably a traumatic invalidating environment.

The great thing about treating borderline patients is that it is like having a supervisor always in the room.

A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity is a function of inadequate knowledge and/or skills.

Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

Many, if not most, therapeutic errors are assessment errors; that is, they are therapeutic responses based on faulty understanding and assessment of the problem at hand.

Tengo un alumno psicoterapeuta. Nunca, nunca, le miro directamente a los ojos. Bajo ningún concepto. Creo que le voy a suspender.

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.

EPICURUS WROTE, "Empty is that philosopher's argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.