Top Therapy Quotes

There is no doubt that I am selective in my listening, hence "directive" if people wish to accuse me of this. I am centered in the group member who is speaking, and am unquestionably much less interes...

Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.

Therapy Definition

(n.) Therapeutics.

Someone's therapist knows all about you.

We can't leave the past in the past because, the past is who we are. It's like saying I wish I could forget English. So, there is no leaving the past in the past. It doesn't mean the past has to defin...

Smile, it's free therapy.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

Back in grade school, my shrinks tried to channel my viciousness into a constructive outlet, so I cut things with scissors. Heavy, cheap fabrics Diane bought by the bolt. I sliced through them with ol...

Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does pay for therapy.

I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.

My job as a therapist is to help victims of trauma understand that they are not to blame. They are not responsible for the bad things that happened to them as children, nor are they responsible for th...

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

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...

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.

You cannot do any more for me, I said. Since I have begun to depend on you I feel weaker than ever before. I have disappointed you by acting neurotically at the very moment when I should have shown th...

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Laughing is so therapeutic but what is even more therapeutic is having someone laugh out loud with you.

Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

My therapist and I even have a joke about it: shit is truly fucked up when I start threatening to take a road trip.

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...