409 Quotes About Therapy

Laughing is a psychological therapy and crying is an emotional therapy

When therapy becomes something so structured in its formulation that it's the same, whoever does it, then the humanity of it will have been lost and artificial artificial intelligence may well be the logical replacement for our therapeutic disciplines.

The ‘therapeutic window’. What a delicious term for the interruption of medical treatment! Might you perhaps hurl yourself into the void through this therapeutic window? How about a hermeneutic window from which to hurl yourself beyond meaning. Or an existential window from which to hurl yourself out of existence and the perpetual reasons for existing.

So I was separated, sent away to therapists and doctors who tried to fix me instead of trying to fix the toxins I was breathing.

Intelligence is analysing things as they are.Imagination is conceiving them as they could be.Morality is conceiving them as they should be.Magic is making them occur the way you conceive them.There is no longer any interest in the mental hygiene of killers. Today we have only the mental hygiene of the victim, and the art of using one's own misfortune as a credit card.

If we can see the scientific viewpoint as one way of perceiving rather than as offering the only or superior truth, then we can learn from these discoveries without shifting into a more mechanical viewpoint ourselves.

Forms used in many clinics ask patients to rate their status on a regular basis, hoping to see an ever-upward trend, and sometimes judging the efficacy of the therapist without regard for the complexity of the challenges they are holding together in the space between. All of this is well-intentioned with the primary goal being rapid reduction of suffering. However it is built on the assumptions of the left hemisphere.

Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope.

If we have a choice between believing one of two things, both of which we have evidence for -- I'm unlovable, I'm lovable - often we choose the one that makes us feel bad. Why do we keep our radios tuned to the same static-ridden stations (the everyone's-life-is-better-than-mine, the I-can't-trust-people station, the nothing-works-out-for-me station) instead of moving the dial up or down? Change the station. Walk around the bars. Who's stopping us but ourselves?