Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego wants to keep it repressed. To the compromise is anxiety.
In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
(n.) Therapeutics.
Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.
The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the case of idiots, with IQs below 20 and the extremest motor incompetence and...
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this pers...
There's no weakness as great as false strength.
Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must be competent without fault. You may become enthralled with your id...
Therapy to life: Eat with the wise, and drink with the fools!
Even though we were still waiting for Don, therapy was well begun. We were engaged in a subtle, often predictable, and very important contest with the family about who was going to be present at the m...
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy.
The fear of what might happen stops people but the trauma process is so beautiful and transformational. There is nothing to fear in our emotions, they will not swallow you whole - they will speak to y...
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
We can order him to make appointments and talk to someone, but we can't force him to actually do the work. You've got to be willing to work on your issues. You've got to be willing to face hard truths...
Sometime, the only way you can make someone listen is with your fist. This is not a technique espoused, I know by the diagnostic manuals on most therapists' shelves.Then again nobody ever said I was a...
After a while Mary said, Zsadist?Yeah?What are those markings?His frowned and flicked his eyes over to her, thinking, as if she didn’t know? But then . . . well, she had been a human. Maybe she didn’t...
Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.
When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addictio...
My therapist and I even have a joke about it: shit is truly fucked up when I start threatening to take a road trip.
I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.
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