Therapy Quotes - Page 21

• Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Powerful, Agents, Humans

  "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing". Book by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavit, 2006.

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• Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.

  Alice Miller

  Today, Comeback, Kind

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• Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

  Nick Bantock

  Art, Dark, Judging

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• It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Pain, Real, Winning

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• Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

  Mary Pipher

  Air, Sound, Needs

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.49, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and what you really, really want.

  Stephen Russell

  Honesty, Believe, Simple

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• Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don't feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Travel, Years, World

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• After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.

  Sterling Marlin

  Sports, Hurt, Airports

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• When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

  Irving Stone

  Weed, Block, Writing

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• There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Different, Philosopher

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• Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the development of human history, we can begin to understand the therapies needed to correct the problems of our times.

  James B. Jordan

  Mean, Civilization, Understanding

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• Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. ...About 12% of the innovations increased complications.

  Jeffrey Bland

  Dark, Doctors, Office

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• You may have difficulty in obtaining some of these (non-drug) therapies..because the FDA has literally pressured Congress, under the guise of protecting the public, to keep time-honoured cultural and natural therapies out of the hands of the general public. If you look at the record of the FDA, it becomes obvious they are serving interests other than yours and mine.

  Robert Willner

  Fda, Hands, Drug

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• The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.

  Ivan Illich

  Diagnosis, Problem, Ethical

  Ivan Illich (1976). “Limits to medicine”

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• I'm up before 5 a.m., I have breakfast, then swimming, Pilates, weight training, and physical therapy. I'm constantly going from one thing to the next. Everyone is busy, but that's my busy.

  Natalie Coughlin

  Swimming, Training, Weight

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• Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things.

  Johnny Vegas

  Book, Writing, Reason

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• Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature therapy, as you do for the latest antidepressant pharmaceuticals. But parents, educators, and health workers need to know what a useful antidote to emotional and physical stress nature can be. Especially now.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Stress, Healing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We read novels because we need stories; we crave them; we can’t live without telling them and hearing them. Stories are how we make sense of our lives and of the world. When we’re distressed and go to therapy, our therapist’s job is to help us tell our story. Life doesn’t come with plots; it’s messy and chaotic; life is one damn, inexplicable thing after another. And we can’t have that. We insist on meaning. And so we tell stories so that our lives make sense.

  John Dufresne

  Jobs, Plot, Needs

  John Dufresne (2010). “Is Life Like This?: A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months”, p.277, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Eye, Tragedy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3240, Delphi Classics

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• Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

  John Dufresne

  Disorder, Persons

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Opinion, Cognitive Therapy

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.308

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• The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Men, World, Cognitive Therapy

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• Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

  Albert Schweitzer

  Leadership, Sports, Healing

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• She thought she brought a gift of compassion for those exhausted souls who had not received a chest portion from the people who raised them. If compassion and therapy did not work, she could always send her patients to the local pharmacy for drugs.

  Pat Conroy

  Compassion, People, Drug

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• I thought if I can do something more playful and light like my play BEYOND THERAPY, it might be a money maker. I think one of the reasons BEYOND THERAPY has legs - it's been very successful for me around the country - is because it's a friendly play, rather sunny.

  Christopher Durang

  Country, Successful, Thinking

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