Therapy Quotes - Page 30

• There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age at which I had empathy for that. And that was through therapy, probably. You have to rebuild and you also have to grow in your understanding of whatever it is your parents are facing, and that takes a major, profound shift of perspective from being a child.

  Ira Sachs

  Children, Profound, Perfect

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do the therapy. Instead, we would ask people to get with that feeling of insecurity, because after all, the client is being asked to do the same thing. It has a kind of a quality of two human beings in the same situation, really, working through these psychological processes. And yeah, you hired me; I'm working for you as a therapist. But I'm not up here and you're down there. And what you're struggling with, at other times and with other areas I'm struggling with.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Struggle, Insecure, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Issues, Shy, Existential

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• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Long, Needs, Sides

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• I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

  Paul Farmer

  Believe, Race, Class

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• I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Crazy, Waiting, Gone

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• I do a variety of activities like Pilates, bike riding, physical therapy, and running. I also train on the ice five to six days a week. On the ice, I work on my programs as a whole and the individual technical elements that comprise the programs.

  Sasha Cohen

  Running, Ice, Riding

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• In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.

  Sloane Crosley

  New York, Writing, Cutting

  "Sloane Crosley Adjusts To The Writerly Life". Interview with Shane Ferro, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Playing my drums is therapy.

  Travis Barker

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• I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

  John Cleese

  Years, Personality, Driven

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• Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

  Alice Miller

  Infancy Is, Adults, Able

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• I have occasionally thought that some [TV] hosts have needed treatment, and some of these hosts have even admitted they could benefit from therapy. Having said that, I think most people can benefit from treatment. Those who need it and refuse to get it generally have the most "issues.

  Robi Ludwig

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Groups, Example, Answers

  "Repressed memory therapy (trauma-search therapy)". "The Skeptic's Dictionary" by Robert Todd Carroll, www.skepdic.com.

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• To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Strong, Groups, Would Be

  Irvin D. Yalom (1983). “Inpatient Group Psychotherapy”, Basic Books

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• One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control--to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic. The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient's control over every interaction.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Powerful, Thinking, Might

  Irvin D. Yalom (1983). “Inpatient Group Psychotherapy”, Basic Books

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• I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.

  Katy Perry

  Ideas, Acupuncture, Done

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• I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

  Guy Pearce

  Periods, Wanted

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• I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Years, Frustrated, Speech

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• Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

  Jason Mraz

  Stories, Bonus, Stage

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• Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

  William Glasser

  Acceptance, Quality, World

  Myrtle Beach Conference on Reality Therapy, March 28, 2008.

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• I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Later In Life, Aftermath

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• I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Song, Real, Writing

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• When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

  Alanis Morissette

  Song, Anger, Men

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• Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.

  Dylan Moran

  Yoga, Class

  "This much I know". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.

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• The world doesn't usually affect us directly. It's what we do with it. It's the filters that we put on it. That's the foundation of certainly most pop-psychology, and of a lot of psychotherapy, cognitive therapy. So that, I think, is the greatest truth.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Thinking, World, Psychotherapy

  Source: bigthink.com

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