Quotes About Therapy

Bueno, todos los pacientes son, en cierto modo, unos mentirosos. Vienen a mi consulta porque sus mentiras les hacen sufrir. El paciente que domina el arte de la mentira acaba siendo víctima de una enfermedad más grave. Pero piensa que aquel que paga puntualmente sus honorarios no nos engaña.

Stekel dice que todos los síntomas neuróticos derivan de percances familiarres y que las personas neuróticas muestran los síntomas de una enfermedad que un agudo estudio definió como "familitis" (fiebre de la familia).

Comprendo que en América Latina la psicoterapia se haya convertido en algo similar a eso, porque se trata de una moda estúpida que no intenta más que uniformar a la humanidad, rica y variada; una moda que instruye a los seres mediocres deseosos de llevar una a una a las ovejas descarriadas al redil del conformismo.

Comprendo que en América la psicoterapia se haya convertido en algo similar a eso, porque se trata de una moda estúpida que no intenta más que uniformar a la humanidad, rica y variada; una moda que instruye a los seres mediocres deseosos de llevar una a una a las ovejas descarriadas al redil del conformismo.

am depressed because I am being exploited by capitalists, and because under the prevailing social system I have no chance of realising my aims, the therapist may well say that I am projecting onto 'the social system' my own inner difficulties, and I am projecting onto 'the capitalists' unresolved issues with my mother.

find yourself suffering from some "medical condition

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

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

Like most addictions, sex is used to take away pain or to temporarily ignore it. If you are not in control of your life, but your life is controlled by your sexual urges, then you need to seek help.

I have two careers that I can do at home in my jammies--the other is online therapy, treating clients around the world via chat and email--so I spend most days at the computer whether I'm writing or not.

This etymology puts me in mind of Winnicott's notion of potential space–that intermediate area between the subjective and objective in which creativity and play occur. Psychotherapy is akin to play, according to Winnicott. Therapy takes place neither inside the mind of the patient nor inside that of the therapist, but in some middle area, in the potential space between them.

There is no perfect solution to the problem of writing about therapy patients. But not to do so strikes me as the riskiest choice at a time in our culture when the power to define madness, malingering, and suicide potential is being handed over to insurance company functionaries.

I have spoken before about the "yes" and the "no" alive in every person who seeks therapy. Listening to Pearl I heard the following: Yes, I would like to confide in you. No, that would displace my loyal family. Yes, I want to get help. No, that would prove I needed it. Yes, I want to change my life. No, I don't. All the things I do and everything I am have taken me this far.

When a client enters therapy with a prior diagnosis, it might be difficult for the therapist to think outside of the box presented. One reason a dissociative individual might have several different diagnoses, however, is that as different parts present, they may also be presenting with diagnostic issues that are different from the host. Such differences especially make sense given the nature of DID.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

The therapist's job is to do everything in her power not just to promote self-understanding but to encourage experimentation.

But what he meant is that we must always keep one foot in the client's world.

Patients must be willing to give up their maladaptive coping styles in order to change. For example, patients who continue surrendering to the schema—by remaining in destructive relationships or by not setting limits in their personal or work lives -perpetuate the schema and are not able to make significant progress in therapy.

Many people who have the Dependence lifetrap also have the Abandonment lifetrap. In fact, it is difficult to imagine a person having the Dependence lifetrap and not having the Abandonment lifetrap. People who have the Dependence lifetrap believe that they cannot survive alone. They need a strong figure to guide and direct them through the activities of day-to-day life. They need help. Abby is an example of a person who has both lifetraps.