Quotes About Therapy

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.

...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

....All of the medicine hurts.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

The brutal limitations placed on women's emotions, the pseudo-psychiatric judgements and labelling and the herding of women into therapy and psychiatry, calls attention to the fact that women are still the second sex, a sex that is denied the full range of human emotions.

Words are doctors for the diseased temper.

Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.

romantic positivists"—who believed that with enough thought and therapy, love could be made into a less painful, indeed almost healthy, experience. This assortment of analysts, preachers, gurus, therapists, and writers, while acknowledging that love was full of problems, supposed that genuine problems must have equally genuine solutions.

The happiness which may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception, it reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may be the result of failing to look properly at our lives rather than the result of anything inherently deficient about them.

When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.

The central idea in this book is that highly aroused, negative emotion—dysregulated emotion—is the core problem for high-conflict couples and that there are specific skills partners can learn to manage their emotions effectively, which in turn makes effective communication (accurate expression followed by understanding and validation) possible.

The real curriculum is punctuality, obedience and the acceptance of monotony, those skills we shall require later in life. Oblique aversion therapy to cure us of our thirst for information, and condition us so that thereafter we forge an association between indolence and pleasure. We confuse rebellion with a hairstyle