Quotes About Therapy

Within the wider context of mainstream medical marijuana and the FDA's designation of MDMA and ketamine as "breakthrough therapies," it was an idea whose time had come.

Of all dead psychological theories, catharsis is the deadest.

My friend does get into her clients' heads, of course—she would be useless if she couldn't—but she doesn't feel what they feel. She employs understanding and caring, not empathy

Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.

No podemos tratar a la Biblia como una serie de conocimientos terapéuticos. Esto distorsiona el mensaje y no dará lugar a un cambio perdurable. Si un sistema puede darnos lo que necesitamos, Jesús nunca hubiera venido.

Does madness ever recede? Can it get better on its own, without therapeutic intervention?

no response after six to eight treatments, the course should usually be abandoned,

A course of ECT usually consists of between six and a maximum of twelve treatments.

usually little response until two or three treatments

maintenance ECT at a reduced frequency (e.g. fortnightly or monthly).

The goal (of psychotherapy) is for the patient to internalize the reparative relationship with their clinician. The Wall Street Journal

Therapy provides you with a frame to sort out... issues. It's a safe, contained and guided space that enables you put your issues out to the world, analyze and come up with a plan of action to resolve them.

The question for the court is, should this boy be in Youth Hall, where he can learn some discipline and maybe get therapy from left-wing, pot-smoking county-payrolled, thumb-sucking shrinks, or should he be on the streets?

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.

It is a basic psychological teaching that if we want to change the way we feel, we must first change the way we act.

Believing a patient's lies is not a professional failure. Psychiatrists are trained to detect, understand, and treat psychopathology, not to function as lie detectors. While a certain level of suspicion is essential in the practice of psychiatry, clinicians, determined never to be taken in by deceitful patients, will approach them with such exaggerated suspicion that therapeutic work will be impossible.

Mentalization-based milieu therapy is not least a focus on management and the staff. The model provides practical help to support clinicians working with the most distressed patients and families in a way that helps them retain their own humanity, their own capacity to empathize and act sympathetically. We need structures to help the therapists to retain their ability to create a coherent image of the patient's perspective. A main aim is to create a "mind-minded" mind.

Psychic equivalence needs to be recognized and, as far as possible, challenged. There will be no progress while the patient is stuck in this way of experiencing reality. The therapist has one major task: get them out of it, if possible. It is fundamental to the symptoms of eating disorders, exemplified by the idea "I feel fat, therefore I am fat".

Therapy" can go on for weeks, months, sometimes even years, in the pretend mode of psychic reality, where internal states are discussed at length, sometimes with excessive detail and complexity yet no progress is made, and no real understanding is experienced. Ideas do not form a satisfactory bridge between inner and outer reality, and affects do not accompany thoughts. Such phenomena are extremely well known from clinical work with eating disorders.

The aim of our treatment structure is to organize different therapeutic contexts in such ways that they separately, and, not least, together, enhance competences for reflexivity and self-regulation as well as symptom reduction. A rationale for a combination of different therapeutic contexts is that mentalizing is challenged in different ways and at different levels in the different contexts, as it is in everyday life, and the different settings provide diverse opportunities to practice .

If, as is more likely, your loved one has the unconventional form of BPD, they may insist that everyone else is the problem. They will have no interest in therapy, and they will be verbally and emotionally abusive. There is a 99 percent chance that they will DARVO: deny, attack, reverse, claim victimhood, and make you into the offender.

However, if the therapist takes everything the person with BPD says at face value without probing further—and this is not uncommon—the therapist may inadvertently reinforce their twisted thinking, making things worse.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is probably the best-known structured treatment for BPD.

Some people with the conventional type of BPD have the opposite problem: they feel unable to express their anger at all.