Top 86 His Therapy Quotes
#1. Dr Stone wasn't insane; Stone was a healer. He held down the right job. Probably he healed many people and in many ways. He adapted his therapy to the individual, not the individual to the therapy.
Philip K. Dick
#2. I leaned down, grabbing his face and pulling it to mine, letting myself kiss him with every failed hope, lost dream, every frustrated moment of low self-esteem, every hidden, dark, secret, shameful thing. I kissed him like therapy. Like I could pour it all into him and finally be free.
Jessica Gadziala
#3. In therapy the individual learns to recognize and express his feelings as his own feelings, not as a fact about another person.
Carl R. Rogers
#4. That we were made in his image. This is the next stage: after clones and gene therapy: we are changing what that image is.
James Smythe
#5. If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.
Rudy Gutierrez
#6. For the only therapy is life. The patient must learn to live, to live with his split, his conflict, his ambivalence, which no therapy can take away, for if it could, it would take with it the actual spring of life.
Otto Rank
#7. Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.
Virginia Axline
#8. In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl R. Rogers
#9. Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.
Jimmy Buffett
#10. In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to be someone else. Things like therapy help us learn how to be ourselves. Sometimes.
Jen Calonita
#11. You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.
Amy Ryan
#12. talk therapy for the terminally introverted.
Susan Sey
#13. I am a rationalist, and I don't believe in genies, or sudden personality changes. I wanted David's anger to vanish only after years and years in therapy.
Nick Hornby
#14. And I always feel so stupid sitting in therapy talking about my problems because, Jesus Christ, so what? I can't equate the amount of pain and misery and despair I have suffered and endured as a depressive with the events of my life, which just seem so common.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#15. Give someone who has faith in you a placebo and call it a hair growing pill, anti-nausea pill or whatever, and you will be amazed at how many respond to your therapy.
Bernie Siegel
#16. A new question for the psychotherapist to ask is whether a theory can go beyond mere effectiveness in achieving either a so-called cure or even personal growth into its implications for the nature of an evolving society.
Erving Polster
#17. In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.
Maura Tierney
#18. If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.
Karen Salmansohn
#19. Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.
Mark W. Boyer
#20. 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
#21. Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance. It can change a person more radically than any drug or many years of therapy.
Jeanne Safer
#22. For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.
Mick Jagger
#23. Frank Farrelly ... must be thought of with respect (perhaps even delight?) by his clients who have so far played the game of therapy with their therapists, but, I am afraid, also a shocking example for those therapists who, in Laing's words, 'are playing at not playing a game'.
Paul Watzlawick
#24. It's like the psychiatrists themselves are buying into that stupid belief that therapy is something to hide.
Jodi Picoult
#25. Part of me felt mollified by the letter, though another part felt he still could have been a bit more tactful in his earlier treatment, busy or no. The rest of me pointed out that all of these "parts of me" probably should be in therapy.
Richelle Mead
#26. When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy ... I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences.
Sinead O'Connor
#27. The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to those aspects and dimensions of the self that the client may be unable to touch on his or her own.
Jack Kornfield
#28. But now, he was conscious of his own impatience with what he had begun to see as the sinister pedantry of therapy, its suggestion that life was somehow reparable, that there existed a societal norm and that the patient was being guided toward conforming to it.
Hanya Yanagihara
#29. My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.
Julie Delpy
#30. Jenks shook his head. "Rache, I really feel bad for her, but Ivy's right. She can't stay here. She needs professional help."
"Really?" I said belligerently, feeling myself warm. "I haven't heard of any group therapy sessions for retired demon familiars, have you?
Kim Harrison
#31. Ari stood up to greet them, and Crawford went back to his grumpy bastard therapy, which some people confused with spinning.
Amy Lane
#32. As part of his life-saving therapy with suicidal patients and his own experience in a Nazi concentration camp, Frankl learned there are three things that give meaning to life: first, a project; second, a significant relationship; and third, a redemptive view of suffering.
Jeff Goins
#33. He should always wear jeans because they make him look hotter than a nebula. Black suits him too. It hugs to his muscular vales and swells, turning temptation into sexy man therapy.
Poppet
#34. Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem.
Joel Fuhrman
#35. You didn't force me. Against my better judgment, and despite all the therapy sessions and spells, I just couldn't help myself. You're like crack to my heart." His gaze narrowed. "Did you just compare me to a highly addictive, dangerous drug?" "Yes." "Mon amour.
Eve Langlais
#36. I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.
Jodie Foster
#37. Debbie often talked about Gretchen as if she was his mistress. But to Archie it sometimes felt like the other way around. As if, by moving back in with his ex-wife, he was cheating on Gretchen.
That was probably worthy of bringing up in therapy
Chelsea Cain
#38. Emptiness and the not-"I" is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#39. He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Stephen King
#40. No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#41. One patient got up and used his wound care supplies to tape his hospital door shut.
Adele Levine
#42. I notice his socks are unmatched -- one black, the other a dark navy -- and suddenly I am provoked by his gall. Who is he to tell me I'm angry, I think to myself, when he can't even match his own socks?
Kathy Hatfield
#43. All I can do in one session is to be real, to leap into the patient's life, to offer observations in the hope that he'll be able to open doors and explore some new parts of himself in his ongoing therapy.
Irvin D. Yalom
#44. I just realized he was phrasing all of his questions as statements. Wasn't there a character in Alice in Wonderland who did that? Did Alice punch him in the face?
David Wong
#45. Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance ...
J. Richard Clarke
#46. What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers.
Rae Earl
#47. As I often tell my students, the two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga, are "Notice that" and "What happens next?" Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#48. THE SECOND SPEAKER, ANITA SALTMARCHE, focused specifically on studies of light therapy used for traumatic brain injury, stroke, and depression.
Norman Doidge
#49. There's nothing like a little Gideon therapy to make things look up.
Sylvia Day
#50. It's not like I didn't think I had any demons. I did, but I could name them- and even provide an address and telephone number for each. As far as I was concerned, those demons could go to therapy instead of me.
Lisa Lutz
#51. For the recuperation of body and mind, there is nothing better than natural therapy - sand, sunshine and surf.
Max Dupain
#52. It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.
Eva Vertes
#54. Therapy could be of tremendous benefit to "getting over" one's past if the therapy is focused on specific ways to stop submitting to the temptation to obsess. Many people with difficult histories carry these histories with them, burnishing the past with each retelling.
Augusten Burroughs
#55. Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.
Brent Smith
#56. (They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured following their 1973 conviction.
Ernst T. Krebs
#57. Our thoughts have prepared for us the
happiness or unhappiness we experience.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#58. Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.
Richard Corliss
#59. I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment."
"I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker.
Jeannine Garsee
#62. But I find God to be an ineffectual shrink. He adopts the "do nothing" method of therapy. You tell him your problems and he, ah, does nothing.
Ned Vizzini
#63. No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
Marianne Williamson
#64. 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
#65. Dance therapy provides an outlet for energy and a safe and playful environment in which many areas of conflict can be identified and worked through, and appropriate adult roles and behavior tried out.
Judith Lynne Hanna
#66. The most important therapeutic capacity is the ability to be present with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being,in our essence and authentic self, in the meditative quality within, through which we can meet another person. It is to meet that which is already perfect within a person.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#67. I remain convinced that a therapist's judicious self-disclosure facilitates the course of therapy. Love's
Irvin D. Yalom
#68. Having a man this good looking begging me for sex was the best therapy I could ask for.
Lucy Robinson
#69. I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.
Kara Goucher
#71. I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.
Jaycee Dugard
#72. Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.
John Grisham
#73. Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a friend, for every child who has lost a parent, for every parent who has lost a child; for any suffering anywhere.
Sebastian Pole
#74. I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from their dysfunctional families, whereas children grow away from good, loving parents with far less conflict. After all, isn't that the task of a good parent, to enable the child to leave home?
Irvin D. Yalom
#75. Riding across Nebraska in a covered wagon was a monthlong immersion therapy in kindness, a reminder of the essential decency of my country.
Rinker Buck
#76. Perhaps the real therapy occurred at the deathbed scene, when they moved into honesty with the revelation that they were fellow travelers, both simply human, all too human.
Irvin D. Yalom
#77. I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I'm thinking 'What am I going to talk about today?'
Justin Kirk
#78. But there's a small percentage who are nothing but born predators. And for them, no amount of good parenting, quality schooling, or therapy sessions will ever make a bit of difference.
Marcia Clark
#79. After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, 'Maybe life isn't or everyone.
Larry Brown
#80. Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need.
Danielle LaPorte
#81. I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.
Jim Carrey
#83. I've always been a fan of therapy. You spend an entire hour talking about yourself and someone has to fake being fascinated by the strange assemblage of minutiae that is you.
Jenny Lawson
#84. My parents are in many ways embodiments of the American Dream. They came to this country with basically nothing but the clothes on their backs, and after twenty years of hard work, sweat, and sacrifice, they were getting divorced, totally broke, and deep in therapy.
David Henry Sterry
#85. Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.
Laurie Anderson
#86. I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
Albert Ellis
