Therapy Quotes - Page 28

• The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.

  Thomas Szasz

  Suicide, Addiction, Drug

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.168, Syracuse University Press

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• I attempt to read one book every day. I don't always achieve that, especially when I'm traveling. But when I'm home, I read almost a book a day. I certainly read a minimum of two or three a week. And as a result of that, I've read over 3,000 books in areas that interest me, like consciousness and spirituality, holistic health, leadership, success, psychological awareness, therapy, etc.

  Jack Canfield

  Book, Home, Two

  "Holistic Education and Lifelong Success. An Interview with Jack Canfield, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul". Interview with Dennis Hughes, www.shareguide.com.

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• The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

  Anne Sexton

  Trouble, Backwards

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's been like therapy to be able to play music and not embarrass my children too much. They've come to a bunch of the shows. It's kind of cool. I'm glad they like it.

  Robert Longo

  Children, Play, Able

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Procrastination, Ideas, Waiting

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, June 25, 2003.

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• 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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• Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Monsters, Fiction

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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• How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Answers, Way

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

  Albert Ellis

  Hate, Self, Taught

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• I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. There was a lot of fear, but it was also very exciting.

  Emma Stone

  Mom, Children, Anxiety

  "Emma Stone: The Cool Girl". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

  Josh Peck

  Acting, Therapeutic

  "Josh Peck and Jonathan Levine on 'The Wackness'". Interview with Stephen Saito, www.ifc.com. July 1, 2008.

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• Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Insanity, Wraps, Popping

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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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• Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

  Colbie Caillat

  Connections, Scared, Reason

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• Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

  David Bentley Hart

  Philosophy, Atheism

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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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• 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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• I spent my whole life being very shy and introverted and I kind of found my release and therapy in the gym. I became this big, menacing physical stature of a man but internally I'm still kind of insecure. Warm, fuzzy and gooey.

  Dave Bautista

  Insecure, Men, Fuzzy

  Tommy2 Interview, tommy2.net. December 10, 2014.

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• After living in the mansion for a year, I did miss dating, and there were times when I was out during the day or at therapy school or even at Playboy parties where I met guys. It's only natural. I needed to have my own life, or I would have gone crazy. But at the same time, I didn't want to disrespect Hugh Hefner or the Playboy name - that always came first.

  Kendra Wilkinson

  Crazy, Party, School

  Source: people.com

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• Paper after paper, study after study, have shown that chairs give us back problems because they shorten our hip flexors, give us weak backs, of course it make us sedentary. We take years off our lives probably by sitting in chairs, but we like them because they're comfortable. You go to an African village, you find me a chair with a back. That's a rare thing out there.

  Daniel Lieberman

  Pain, Years, Giving

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• The therapy has been on and off, but I'll always go. I notice when I don't go, I start creating bad habits for myself. It's up to me to put in the effort. And I definitely watch The Secret a lot. That's part of my therapy: positive thinking. Really seeing yourself having everything you want, and feeling the emotion of having that. I did that about a Grammy. When The Secret came out, I was saying, "I'm going to win a Grammy." And I went there with my hypnosis and believing, really feeling what it would be like to have one.

  Fergie

  Believe, Positive Thinking, Winning

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Some days you're depressed, some days you're happy, some days you're broken hearted. People need music for therapy, to heal them or speak for them when they can't describe how they're feeling.

  Rapsody

  People, Broken, Feelings

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me." It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.

  Justin Long

  Couple, Motivation, Creativity

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I volunteered at UCLA's occupational therapy ward, where there are lots of kids with autism and emotional problems. I just wanted to prove to myself that I could not break down and cry at everything, and that I could just help somebody else. The one thing I really remember was that when we would take them out of the hospital for a walk around campus, they would freak out the most when we were waiting for the elevator. I remember the guy at the elevator said to himself, "Transitions are the hardest." And I said to myself, "Transitions are always the hardest."

  Fiona Apple

  Kids, Emotional, Autism

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• According to the norms of the hijras community, it's not necessary that one be castrated. Castration is your choice. If you do it, testosterone doesn't build up, femininity comes, but I have always said that castration is not the right way. A person should go for complete sexual reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, psychological counseling.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Community, Choices, Psychological

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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