Quotes About Therapy

One should never underestimate the healing power of music.

I certainly didn't understand something that I learned later from Dr. Kay Jamison, the author of An Unquiet Mind, about her own manic-depression. She has written that it is "a lethal illness, particularly if left untreated, or wrongly treated.

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions.

Sea air does you a lot of good.

Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

I'm not a shrink. Never been to one. Shot a couple. Don't think that counts.

I seemed to be establishing a pattern here. Muster my strength and charge forward. Collapse in a puddle of grief and guilt. Charge forward. Collapse again. I said as much to Daniel and the others chimed in, making mock bets on who would spend the most time in therapy after this, and whether we could get group discounts.

The world news might not be therapeutic.

What a Life: Give some of us pills to stop a fit, give the rest shock to start one.

Billy here has been talkin' about slicin' his wrists again, so is there seven of you guys who'd like to join him and make it therapeutic?

I've heard that theory of the Therapeutic Community enough times to repeat it forwards and backwards - how a guy has to learn to get along in a group before he'll be able to function in a normal society; how the group can help the guy by showing him where he's out of place; how society is what decides who's sane and who isn't, so you got to measure up.

Step Two: Face It. Once you have a good deal of videotape of the problematic item, then face it. If the symptom seems to be triggered by a particular person, then locate that person in your mind, and face him or her (or them). It might help to sit in a chair and put another "empty chair" in front of you. Put the problem in the empty chair—the person, monster, image, event, or simply the symptom itself (depression, anxiety, fear, envy).

I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy.

Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature takes its course. —Voltaire

The psychiatrist motioned Klein to come over to him. "Let's get her tranquilized," he whispered. "Maybe I can talk to her.

to sense the client's inner world of private personal meanings as if it were your own, but without ever losing the 'as if' quality

In their confluence, these complex therapeutic skills may over time become a simpler way of being.

The first of four basic processes in MI is to engage the client in a collaborative working relationship.

Some griefs are med'cinable.