Therapy Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.

  Robbie Williams

  Girl, Real, Thinking

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• Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

  Gabrielle Union

  Drama, Weight, Pressure

  "Gabrielle Union talks about The Honeymooners". movieweb.com. June 7, 2005.

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• The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

  Matt Stone

  Thinking, People, Culture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.

  Douglas Coupland

  Pain, Feel Good, Special

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• If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

  Carl Sagan

  Pain, Average, Pseudoscience

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.44, Ballantine Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Viruses, Levels, Difficult

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• 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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• 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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• Your best posture is your next posture.

  Morgan Freeman

  Pain, Next, Injury

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• Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Mean, Design

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• Hopefully we are emerging from an era of fantasy explanations for real phenomena. The authors certainly have to face a community of therapists who are obsessionally committed to explanations for disease and for therapy unsupported by a scrap of evidence except for their claimed therapeutic success.

  Patrick David Wall

  Pain, Real, Community

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• Bourne concentrated on rest and mobility. From somewhere in his forgotten past he understood that recovery depended upon both and he applied rigid discipline to both.

  Robert Ludlum

  Pain, Recovery, Past

  Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.155, Bantam

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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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• Many people are afraid of running because between 30 to 70 percent (depending on how you measure it) of runners get injured every year.

  Daniel Lieberman

  Running, Pain, Years

  "Brains Plus Brawn" by Dr. Daniel Lieberman, www.edge.org. October 7, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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 actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

  J.K. Simmons

  College, Degrees, Tools

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up sucks, doesn't it? I understand why people wouldn't want to get old - but it'd be one thing if we became a culture obsessed with eating right, doing yoga, going to therapy and becoming at one with ourselves. That be great. But we don't do that. We seem to be obsessed with all the wrong ways to stay young.

  Jason Reitman

  Growing Up, Yoga, People

  "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

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• It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

  Jodie Foster

  Important, Chemicals, Medication

  "Jodie Foster Interview THE BEAVER; Plus an Update on Neill Blomkamp's ELYSIUM". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2011.

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