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• You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

  Rachel McAdams

  Eye, Thinking, Flying

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• If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.

  Sandra Oh

  Couple, Challenges, Ifs

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• People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

  Richard Simmons

  Past, People, Forgiving

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

  Stephen Fry

  Exercise, Bipolar, Mindfulness

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• There are two types of people in the world: those who think everyone needs therapy, and those who have never been.

  Jenny Mollen

  Thinking, Two, People

  Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.

  Jenny Mollen

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

  Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

  Elizabeth Strout

  New York, Sidewalk, Divorced

  "Elizabeth Strout on 'The Burgess Boys'". Interview with Dylan Foley, www.chicagotribune.com. March 23, 2013.

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• It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

  John E. Sarno

  Pain, Drug, Patient

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• Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Simple, Two, Qigong

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• I love walking in the woods, on the trails, along the beaches. I love being part of nature. I love walking alone. It is therapy. One needs to be alone, to recharge one's batteries.

  Grace Kelly

  Beach, Love Is, Batteries

  "The Milwaukee Sentinel Princess Grace finds relaxation in her gardens", January 1, 1981.

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• The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  Art, Lying, Psychology

  Harriet B. Braiker (2002). “The Type E* Woman: How to Overcome the Stress of Being Everything to Everybody”, p.19, iUniverse

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• Simple intervention - the time spent with a patient - is a very powerful ingredient of the patient-doctor contract. The evidence is against the traditions such as surgery for back pain being true - the evidence says it doesn't work.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Powerful, Simple

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• These doctors, who had long experience with people in pain in addition to their traditional training and schooling, had discovered that nothing happens without communication, treatment based on evidence of outcome, and what used to be called a good bedside manner.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Communication, Doctors

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.122, A&C Black

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• Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."

  Marni Jackson

  Children, Pain, Character

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.348, A&C Black

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• Given the ... multidisciplinary philosophy, I was surprised by the absence of alternative pain approaches - the whole spectrum of cranial-sacral massage, healing-touch therapy, and other hands-on skills that are a lifeline to many people with chronic pain. Alternative therapie are hard to evaluate, but that's no reason not to explore them.

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Philosophy, Healing

  Marni Jackson (2002). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, Crown Pub

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• Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?

  Marni Jackson

  Pain, Culture, Injury

  Marni Jackson (2012). “Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign”, p.5, A&C Black

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• That's the New York thing, isn't it. People who seem absolutely crazy going around telling you how crazy they used to be before they had therapy.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  New York, Crazy, People

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• Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

  Aaron T. Beck

  Stress, Self, Belief

  "Cognitive Therapy of Depression". Book by Aaron T. Beck, 1978.

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• ...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold...medical degrees from such universities as Harvard, Illinois, Northwestern, Yale, Dublin, Oxford, or Toronto. Two are osteopaths. 3...also hold...(PhD's)....scientific....reputable....8 others received PhD's in such fields as chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, parasitology, or medical physics, from...Yale, Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and NYU. Thus over 75%...are medical doctors or doctors of philosophy in scientific areas.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Philosophy, Book, Dark

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• The analyst's psyche operates as a kind of... something to hold on to while somebody's going through therapy, if they're deconstructing their own psyche, if that's cracking up in some way, or dissolving.

  Susie Orbach

  Way, Kind, Analysts

  Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

  Julianne Hough

  People, Laughing, Trying

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

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• It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Character, Process, Private Things

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• I've always used my own personal emotions and things that I've gone through in my life to build a character. The work that I do before a film feels almost like therapy, between me and whoever I'm playing.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Character, Gone, Emotion

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• I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

  Irrfan Khan

  Unbearable, Crisis

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• In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

  Irrfan Khan

  India, Needs, Culture

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