When emotions turn and stay sour, when thoughts become cynical and judgmental, good and compassionate treatment is on the line. Helpers who become sour and cynical tend to begrudge their high need clients for their...

What can I say, the best therapy for me was to get in my Marlboro car and drive it.

chemistry” or infatuation, possession, strong admiration, or even worship—in short, traditional romantic love. Many people who grew up in troubled homes and who experienced a stifling of their Child Within become stuck at these lower...

The irony of taking Anti Depressants: you take them to feel good but they also make you feel bad or worse because you worry about your purse.

There’s no weakness as great as false strength.

I hear they make greeting cards now to thank your therapist… for NOTHING

When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax’s life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction...

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

In situations where I feel unclear or I do not know what to say or do, I turn my attention within myself. Then I listen to what my intuition and to what Existence within myself...

There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.

I’ve had that injury before. I don’t know that any injury hurts more. He had therapy from the second hole on, so he’s going to be sore. That’s why I put him off last so...

false memory” implantations.

Therapy entails the conceptual machinery to ensure that actual or potential deviants stay within the institutionalized definitions of reality, or, in other words, to prevent “inhabitants” of a given universe from “emigrating”. It does this...

I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.

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...

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Do it for therapy. You can go to art school later.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you’ll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

We can order him to make appointments and talk to someone, but we can’t force him to actually do the work. You’ve got to be willing to work on your issues. You’ve got to be...

Presence is not a question of judging or evaluating a client or a client’s situation. Presence is to see the client’s situation in a positive and creative light with a vision for how the present...

Journal writing Helps Us Heal. That’s one of the therapeutic methods to helping us cope with hardship or painful situations in our lives. Writing in a journal allows us to make sense of things and...

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.

I’ve been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don’t need to know anymore.

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

I’ve had a lot of therapists, so I’ve had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I’ve faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a...

Music isn’t just heard, it is felt.

I’m freeeee… SPLAT!”.

The fear of what might happen stops people but the trauma process is so beautiful and transformational. There is nothing to fear in our emotions, they will not swallow you whole – they will speak...

How do you think your body and mind would respond if you were surrounded by psychologists, psychiatrists, or drug and alcohol counselors who subscribed to the belief that “once an alcoholic or addict, always an...

The benefit of personal growth and self-discovery is that we become better human beings with the strength to endure and carry on, and then we may experience something magical when we begin to reach out...

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...

Therapy should be the first course of treatment.

It’s difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn’t enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I...

I’ve always had this feeling,” Henry says, “that all dogs are really therapy dogs.

There’s this halo, sacrosanct idea of gene therapy, that no one could be involved unless they’re completely trustworthy, that maybe left more blinders on than in other areas.

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and through hiccoughs, trembling, I would hiss, don’t touch me! as he...

When people recover from depression via psychotherapy, their attributions about recovery are likely to be different than those of people who have been treated with medication. Psychotherapy is a learning experience. Improvement is not produced...

Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of ‘Failure of Will.’ Depression is not a choice.

People who are diagnosed as having “generalized anxiety disorder” are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural...

The purported insight achieved by the patient is not the product of a process of veridical self-discovery, but rather reflects the patient’s conversion to the therapist’s interpretation.

Back in grade school, my shrinks tried to channel my viciousness into a constructive outlet, so I cut things with scissors. Heavy, cheap fabrics Diane bought by the bolt. I sliced through them with old...

It is not unreasonable to want repentance from a wrongdoer before forgiving that wrongdoer, since, in the absence of repentance, hasty forgiveness may harm both the forgiver and the wrongdoer. The forgiver may be harmed...

The greatest teacher in healing is nature itself. To be out in the nature is like being surrounded and embraced by love. Trees are also very beautiful people, who have their own innate wisdom and...

By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly...

Disclosure without therapy is the second rape of the child.

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives.

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine–hope.

I’ve never, ever had any therapy. Some might say I need it, but I’ve never seen a shrink or a psychologist or anything like that.