Therapy Quotes - Page 26

• But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy.

  M. Scott Peck

  Wise, Spiritual, Ideas

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• I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Prayer, Yoga, Kids

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Music isn’t just music, it’s therapy.

  Steve Garrigan

  Music Is

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• Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

  David Bentley Hart

  Philosophy, Atheism

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• In therapy , the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Scary, Waste, Therapists

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.35, Random House

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• Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Self, Toxins, Noise

  "Jennifer Aniston says she won't let tabloids steal her joy". Associated Press Interview, www.glamour.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory of schizophrenia presented here is based on communications analysis, and specifically on the Theory of Logical Types. From this theory and from observations of schizophrenic patients is derived a description, and the necessary conditions for, a situation called the "double bind"--a situation in which no matter what a person does, he "can't win." It is hypothesized that a person caught in the double bind may develop schizophrenic symptoms

  Gregory Bateson

  Communication, Winning, Doe

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.201, University of Chicago Press

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• Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc.). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to change it, and how can we go about change?

  Stanton Peele

  Real, Addiction, People

  Stanton Peele. Ph.D., J.D. (2007). “7 Tools to Beat Addiction: A New Path to Recovery from Addictions of Any Kind: Smoking, Alcohol, Food, Drugs, Gambling, Sex, Love”, p.17, Harmony

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• I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.

  Shelley Long

  Cameras, Legs, Purses

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler,

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• My guitar is like my best friend. My guitar can get me through anything. If I can sit down and write an amazing song with my guitar about what's going on in life, then that's the greatest therapy for me.

  Miley Cyrus

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Miley Cyrus: I like to be the girl no guy can get". Daily Mirror, May 5, 2008.

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• Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Joy, Knows

  "Rauschenberg: Art and Life". Book by Mary Lynn Kotz, 1990.

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• If you're worried about a kid and drug use, the safest, best thing to do is individual counseling or family therapy, none of which will expose kids to more deviant or problematic peers and both of which are proven to be effective and at the very least, they won't hurt.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Hurt, Kids, Drug Use

  Source: sojo.net

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• The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the person really feels understood. That matters often even more than the technique.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Technique, Outcomes, Matter

  Source: sojo.net

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• One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Other Cultures, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm not talking about just Donald Trump's politics - it's what he's brought up. It's a real conversation. We're just people trying to fall in love as nations and human beings. We need therapy, man. The world does.

  Michael Buble

  Falling In Love, Real, Men

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.

  Jerome Groopman

  Sports, Pain, Frustration

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• I think all of the best nonfiction that has ever been made comes from the result of someone who can't stop thinking about a certain topic - a very specific aspect of a certain topic in some cases. And second, they got really good at figuring out what they had to say about it.

  Merlin Mann

  Pain, Thinking, Topics

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• The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

  Steven Novella

  Pain, News, Injury

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• We should listen less to the opinions of those who either overtly promote or stubbornly reject complementary and alternative medicine without acceptable evidence. The many patients who use complementary and alternative medicine deserve better. Patients and healthcare providers need to know which forms are safe and effective. Its future should (and hopefully will) be determined by unbiased scientific evaluation.

  Edzard Ernst

  Pain, Medicine, Deserve Better

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• A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Pain, Attitude, Cancer

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• ... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Powerful, Effectiveness

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• The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Pain, Drinking, Winning

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• Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Dubious

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• Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Thinking, Thank God

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• ... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.

  Clair Davies

  Pain, Doctors, Years

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