Therapists Quotes - Page 7

• I was very ashamed of seeing a therapist because I thought only crazy people went, and then, after about nine years, I asked him, 'Well, was I really crazy?' And he nodded and said, 'You were but not any more.'

  Mickey Rourke

  Crazy, Years, People

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• Creating safety is your first job [as therapist], and then once that's established, you can use many tools to help someone see the folly in their thinking.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Jobs, Thinking, Creating

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I have a constant kind of soundtrack going on at all times. I almost always have a song in my head. I'm very musically inclined. It feeds my soul. It definitely helps me get into a mood or get out of a mood. Or inspires a mood. Honestly, it is one of my therapists - cheaper and always available.

  Erin Davie

  Song, Inspire, Soul

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• [Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Needs, Used

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I didn't have a calling to be a therapist. I really went to Pacifica for a very specific kind of life experience, to really kind of find my path in a deeper way.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Calling, Way, Path

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• If my artist life didn't work or if I needed to work in some capacity part-time in something, I knew I'd have a real life skill [become a therapist].

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Real, Artist, Skills

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist. I went to Pacifica to study Jungian psychology and archetypes and mythology and there were many different programs there.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Interesting, Psychology, Different

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I didn't think I'd be a good therapist. I didn't think I could do both at the same time. Maybe some people can, but I wanted a bigger spotlight and I don't think that's right for clients to have a therapist who wants that kind of life.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Thinking, People, Clients

  "George Carlin, my Father: Interview with Kelly Carlin". Interview With Robert W. Frashure, www.psychologyart.com.

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• When I was in therapy about two years ago, one day I noticed that I hadn't had any children. And I like children at a distance. I wondered if I'd like them up close. I wondered why I didn't have any. I wondered if it was a mistake, or if I'd done it on purpose, or what. And I noticed my therapist didn't have any children either. He had pictures of his cats on the wall. Framed.

  Spalding Gray

  Children, Wall, Mistake

  Spalding Gray (2005). “Swimming to Cambodia”, p.32, Theatre Communications Group

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• Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a serious matter. You're holding people's psyches.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Jobs, Psych, People

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I know there must be something I should explore about that with my therapist.

  Debra Messing

  Should, Knows

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• The work is important and essential and I've had a therapist myself for decades and it's important work, but I knew that I wanted to work with people who are more functioning and that's when I decided to pursue my performance career full-time.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Careers, People, Important

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, People, Logical

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• I started to call myself a "rational therapist" in January 1955; later I used the term "rational emotive." Now I call myself a "rational emotive behavior therapist." But from the start, I always included philosophic techniques as well as experiential, emotional and behavioral techniques.

  Albert Ellis

  Emotional, Technique, January

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• Freudian therapists do a lot of listening and very little persuading, and that was one of the reasons I eventually gave up being an analyst. You had to be too passive and not speak up, and you couldn't give homework to clients. While I was still an analyst, I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit psychoanalysis after practicing it for six years.

  Albert Ellis

  Years, Giving, Listening

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• Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency. Had I not been a therapist, I would have been an efficiency expert.

  Albert Ellis

  Thinking, Experts, Efficiency

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• In the Senate race I went for some candidate endorsement meetings and three people there asked me: Do you go to a therapist? Because they could not believe that with the beating I took in the mayor's race I could still come in there cracking jokes and talking about the issues!

  Angela Alioto

  Believe, Race, Talking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.

  Morgan Parker

  Top Down, Color, Black

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client to feel safe enough to turn their vision in towards themselves and their experience in the moment and to reveal things that usually carry a lot of shame or that kind of stuff around.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Jobs, Real, Safety

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I have known know many therapists who come out of Pacifica Graduate Institute and love being both artists and therapists at the same time, like Maureen Murdock. They are photographers and dancers and other kinds of things and therapists at the same time. I think it really makes them a much more interesting therapist because they're so engaged with the imagination and the creativity and the depths of who they are.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Creativity, Love Is, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Hands, People, Too Much

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• Throughout history, humankind has been resistant to change and to the acceptance of new ideas... When Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter, the astronomers of that time refused to accept or even to look at these satellites because the existence of these moons conflicted with their accepted beliefs. So it is now with psychiatrists and other therapists, who refuse to examine and evaluate the considerable evidence being gathered about survival after bodily death and about past life memories. Their eyes are tightly shut.

  Brian Weiss

  Memories, Healing, Eye

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• Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.

  Thomas Moore

  Crazy, Issues, Problem

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• Clint Eastwood's sex therapist, who said to Clint, Do it any which way you can, but no sudden impact. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Sex, Impact, Dinner

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• I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

  Dane Cook

  Yelling, People, Feelings

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