Best Therapy Quotes

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

I love therapy! There’s nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.

Today, there are no proven safe and effective therapies for the coronavirus…

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it’s inevitable we’ll respect people.

What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one’s physician, In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as ‘Don’t ask and don’t tell,’ needs to be abandoned — that is not in anyone’s best interest.

ISABEL: Sorry I missed my session Monday. DR. RUSH: Would you like to tell me why? ISABEL: I was depressed. DR. RUSH: That’s a good reason to come to therapy.

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh – comedy as electro shock therapy.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn’t like that. My dad wasn’t and I wasn’t. Things were said, but via the language of action.

I’m at my happiest when I’m on a movie set. It’s like therapy for me.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to – I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to – because it was hard, you know, to – you can’t just lay it on friends and children.

We don’t have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They’re ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It’s meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.

The pack includes analysis and summary forms as well as very explicit links between assessment and individualised intervention…these materials are often lacking in published therapy programmes and are especially helpful…the pack provides very clear guidelines…overall it will be a very significant addition to speech and language therapy practice.

Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

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

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.

For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.

My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it’s called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it’s called prostitution.

We cannot conduct reforms that affect the people adversely. If therapy drags out for decades and no gleam of light is seen, it is certainly not in the interests of the country, not in the interests of the people.

A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it’s just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it’s been a very good therapy session for me as well.

Why Family Therapy…because it deals with family pain.

I work out. I used to go to yoga every day. Now I just incorporate yoga into my warm-up and my cool down. I drink a lot of water, and I go to therapy.

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders — Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s — because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn’t. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in some alternative sense. If a therapy or treatment is anything more than a placebo, properly conducted double-blind trials, statistically analyzed, will eventually bring it through with flying colours. Many candidates for recognition as orthodox medicines fail the test and are summarily dropped. The alternative label should not (though, alas, it does) provide immunity from the same fate.

Everybody has their reasons.

I sing my life. It’s like I’m having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they’re there for that – whether it’s to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

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.

I think it’s therapeutic when we play. It’s just like therapy.

You know, these conservative women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut ’em off, let ’em go through the hot flashes, let ’em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don’t deserve to have estrogen. They really don’t. It’s a privilege.

How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam engine into a better, more efficient machine. I’d say that is what Don did for family therapy, he established the discipline. Others have gone on to refine it.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.