Quotes on Therapy

[Daniel E.]

"Shame is the emotional result of believing that I am different from other people in some significant way. Shame is what happens when I no longer believe that people are people and I am one of them."

-- Michael Graham, Facts of Life: Ten Issues of Contentment

 

[Daniel E.]

“The lesson for psychotherapy is that the therapist may well have as great an impact through her presence as she does through her problem-solving skills. Especially when the root of the patient’s emotional predicament lies in the basic fault, in experiences that were preverbal or unremembered and that left traces in the form of absence or emptiness, the therapist’s ability to fill the present moment with relaxed attentiveness is crucial. It is not just that such patients tend to be extraordinarily sensitive to any falseness in relating, but that they need this kind of attention in order to let themselves feel the gap within themselves. It is much too threatening otherwise.”

― Mark Epstein, Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective

 

[Daniel E.]

“Client(s) come to therapy not because they needed a solution, but because they realized what the solution was, and were terrified.”

~ Walter & Peller, Becoming Solution-focused in Brief Therapy

 

[Daniel E.]

"Change results from a crystallization of discontent."

~ unknown

 

[Daniel E.]

"Feeling better does not equal getting better."

~ Albert Ellis

 

[Daniel E.]

"You do not have to want to stop your current behavior in order to change; you simply have to want something else more."

~ Aldo Pucci

 

[Daniel E.]

“The goal isn’t for the thoughts to be gone. The goal is for the thoughts to be meaningless and ineffective. Recovery is a state where a person’s brain might produce these associations rather than 40 to 50 times a day, to possibly twice a day, sometimes twice a week.”

Pure OCD: When logic is overthrown by nightmare-like thoughts

 

[Daniel E.]

 

[Daniel E.]

"Tell your therapist what you’re feeling, even if it makes you feel vulnerable. Talk about what has helped you feel connected, and what hasn’t. Be as clear as you can about when you’ve felt the alliance strengthen, and even when you’ve felt misunderstood."

~ Loren Soeiro, Ph.D., What Should You Do When You Don't Trust Your Therapist?

 

[Daniel E.]

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”

― David Richo, Ph.D.,The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know

 

[Daniel E.]

Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world — “Life is good,” “I’m safe,” “People are kind,” “I can trust others,” “The future is likely to be good” — and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous,” “I can’t win,” “I can’t trust other people,” or “There’s no hope.”

― Mark Goulston MD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder For Dummies

 

[Daniel E.]

“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 human situation.”

― Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

 

[Daniel E.]

"Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious...Patients are people who have had too much programming ― so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves."

― Milton H. Erickson

 

[Daniel E.]

"Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change."

― Milton H. Erickson

 

[Daniel E.]

"Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy."

― Milton H. Erickson

 

[Daniel E.]

In Ontario, a battle for the soul of psychiatry - The Globe and Mail

Taking psychotherapy out of psychiatric education is taking the “psyche” out of psychiatry. Prohibiting psychiatrists from treating patients is taking the “iatrist” out of psychiatrist. Psychiatry will exist in name only, and cease to attract the people we need in the field: people who actually see their calling as caring for others.

 

[Daniel E.]

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”

― Abraham Maslow

 

[David Baxter PhD]

In Ontario, a battle for the soul of psychiatry - The Globe and Mail

Taking psychotherapy out of psychiatric education is taking the “psyche” out of psychiatry. Prohibiting psychiatrists from treating patients is taking the “iatrist” out of psychiatrist. Psychiatry will exist in name only, and cease to attract the people we need in the field: people who actually see their calling as caring for others.

That is extremely worrisome.

 

[forgetmenot]

Dam this is so dam unfair to the people who need the help the most dam them really use your brains for God sake.

 

[Daniel E.]

“Think of your head as an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.”

― Augusten Burroughs, Dry