199 Quotes About Psychotherapy

Nita: I think I overdid the vulnerability stuff in this last letter. and that’s why I’m having an anxiety attack.Howard: With the vulnerability comes the possibility that you’ll be betrayed. Now that you’ve laid yourself wide open, I am the agent of this betrayal? It’s not my style.Nita: I’ve thought it wasn't other people’s style, too.

Howard: Sometimes a betrayal can be so subtle that it clouds the whole thing.Nita: It would have to be a real betrayal. Not like canceling an appointment. It would be like you’d end the relationship in the middle.Howard: Why would I call it off?Nita: I don’t know!

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing

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 person may use for his own personal growth?

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up

As the public anxieties about infectious disease outbreaksrose in recent years with the advent of SARS, N1H1 flu, Ebola,and Zika, we observed in awe how the public would react to animpending outbreak in their midst and how those public fearswould emerge and spread like, well, an epidemic. A wave ofpublic angst anticipating an outbreak would swell, crest, andthen subside, very much like the wave of the infection outbreakitself. In the wake of both waves, relief would follow.

We're strong for each other ! It's what women do!" said Zelda to Pearl"He Counts Their Tears" by Mary Ann D'Alto

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

Maybe I needed that somebody else could cry over my pain, to become able to cry over it myself. Nobody ever cried or was moved when I suffered as a child. (Lisa)