Quotes About Therapy

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.

Therapy is expensive, and often the best facilities and practitioners are not covered by insurance, and so mental health becomes a luxury.

He was about to find out that when you open a door with a psychiatrist's name on it, you'd better be prepared to witness exactly how fucked up your life has become.

Ninety-seven percent of the time, chemotherapy does not work and continues to be used only for one reason—doctors and pharmaceutical companies make money from it. That's the only reason chemotherapy

Cristina Sanchez of Complutense University of Madrid has found that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive chemical found in marijuana, kills cancer cells without damaging healthy cells.

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.

Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

Of course every woman tries to be a good mother, and then wonders if, after all her best efforts, her children will wind up on a headshrinker's couch complaining about bad treatment.

I knew Lynn was a "professional." Like all of the therapists I had seen before her, she was talking to me because she was getting paid to do so. But she was better at pretending that she cared. Her body language and sympathetic "umm' suggested that she really listened. (12)

Lynn said that therapy was like separating the strands in a tangled web of yarn. It made sense that things would keep getting more separate for awhile so that we eventually came back together in an organized way. (205)

Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.

Being empathic by reaffirming the patients' subjective experiences alone does not distinguish between true empathic resonance and collusion.

The main differences between a self-psychological approach and an object-relational one with respect to deficits is that in self-psychology one strives to understand the subjective experience of the patient, putting aside one's own preconceptions, whereas in object relations the therapist addresses the patient's distortions and misperceptions at face value.

After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman. Shazam! I suddenly felt I could open up and talk about the real stuff going on in my head. She lasted two session. I guess it was the castration fantasy that pushed over the edge.

It's my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.

It's one of the perks of aging, I suppose—an eagerness to release the baggage that doesn't serve you. I know this goes against common wisdom; our therapy-obsessed culture seems to think old wounds must be reopened before they can heal. I'm not sure I agree.

You need to get the hell out of here and let Med and I take care of developing the therapy.

These symptoms could be alleviated best, he learned, by encouraging soldiers to confront the frightening memories and make some kind of peace with them.

Turn wounds into words

Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.