P Quotes
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“Psychotherapy can help some people, especially people who are neurotic, who are always making problems for themselves. We are like a rider on an elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll go where he wants. They need to get a better relationship between the rider and the elephant. In part, you get it just from watching yourself stumble around in life, make mistakes, then read a little psychology and stop blaming yourself. Realize that I am flawed. I am complicated. I am divided, and I'm doing the best I can.”
“Psychotherapy in its broadest sense is a collection of paths toward wisdom and wholeness.”
Source: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
“Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.”
Source: Existential Psychotherapy
“Psychotherapy is a practice that many different professional disciplines engage. Psychiatrists are also medical doctors and increasingly offer medication and do less and less actual therapy.”
“Psychotherapy is not a method of repairing problems or fostering personal happiness. That is psychotechnique. On the contrary ... it is fundamentally an ethical and a political task.”
Source: Relational Depth: New Perspectives and Developments
“Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.”
“Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.”
“Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.”
Source: The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to do When a Parent's Love Rules Your Life
“Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the cities, the economy, the racism. They come from architecture, school systems, capitalism, exploitation. They come from many places that psychotherapy does not address. Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong.”
“Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.”
Source: The Machinery of the Mind
“Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.”
“Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.”
“Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.”
“Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.”
“Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapist or I would not have offered."
"Ha."
-Mac and V'Lane”
“Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.”
“Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.”
“Psychotropic drugs have also been organized according to structure (e.g., tricyclic), mechanism (e.g., monoamine, oxidase inhibitor [MAOI]), history (first generation, traditional), uniqueness (e.g., atypical), or indication (e.g., antidepressant). A further problem is that many drugs used to treat medical and neurological conditions are routinely used to treat psychiatric disorders.”
Source: Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry
“Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked”
“Pter Mirmotahari had once visited Victoria high school as a guest lecturer, back when I was in the 5th standard. I was mesmerized by how much he really cared for the well being of children. He is the reason why I am working as a social worker for 2 years now.”
“PTL was more Pentecostal than fundamentalist. Pentecostals have a better sense of how a culture feels than how a society works.”
Source: PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Evangelical Empire
“PTSD is a battle fought in our quiet moments, but love is the force that breaks through that silence.”
“PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.”
“PTSD is curable when one realises how the unconscious mind works and that the symptoms of PTSD are actually the unconscious mind attempting to protect the person experiencing them. With the right therapies it is possible to take a person with extreme PTSD and help them to neutralise all their painful memories and emotions permanently.”
“PTSD may be a Russian roulette game, and I may be hoping for the bullet to enter my head. If I'm lucky, the missed revolver may give me more chances to live longer and stay stronger. Someday, if I am audacious enough, I will send the bullet to my unwanted memories instead of myself.”
Source: Glass Bones and Paper Skin: The Journal of Nix
“Puas dan derita selalu berlawanan. Ada diperoleh, hilang yang lain tidak bisa serumah. Sebagaimana tidak bisa bersatu gerak dengan diam. Kadang-kadang lezat yang kecil bagi tubuh, menjadi pintu sakit yang berbahaya bagi jiwa, dan penderitaan yang kecil kerap kali jadi pintu kepuasan yang sejati.
Untuk menghindarkan bahaya yang amat besar itu, orang perlu menghindarkan nikmat yang sebentar saja. Itulah gunanya 'iffah. Dan untuk mencapai kepuasan besar yang abadi, orang perlu teguh dan tahan menyeberangi kesakitan dan penderitaan yang sebentar. Itulah gunanya syaja'ah.
Biar pahit mulanya asal manis ujungnya, kata syaja'ah.
Biar saya tahan selera, di perhentian kecil, asal saya makan enak di perhentian besar kelak, kata 'iffah.”
Source: Falsafah Hidup
“pubblico soltanto quello che ti chiede, piegando cio che sei a cio che vorrebbero tu fossi non sei un buon artista, se ne andranno sazi senza aver imparato nulla di te.”
Source: Inside The Outsider
“Pubcon is always one of the first shows I put on my calendar. Content is excellent, social is excellent, networking opportunities are excellent.”
“Puberty corrupts - that’s a fact, and it corrupts without consent – that’s the concern.”
Source: Manan
“Puberty flicked a switch inside of them and dreams were replaced by hormones and college prep courses and varsity sports while I continued to look for faeries in the woods behind my house.”
Source: Life is But a Dream
“Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.”
“Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like going from hot dogs and hamburgers to beef stroganoff, or from ice cream in a cone to creme brulee.”
“Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar.”
“Puberty is the sickest joke God plays on us. So you're just noticing members of the sex: "Girls girls, ooo". Naturally you want to look your best, and God says "No! You will look the worst you've ever looked in your life!"”
“Puberty rites are specifically designed to coerce boys to reject their primary and deepest bond, to their mothers. Male initiations emphasise that men must be born twice, once through the mother and a second time through men.”
Source: From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
“Puberty. The word itself sounded like a half-digested lump of rubber.”
Source: American Ghosts
“Puberty was definitely difficult for me.”
“Puberty was definitely difficult for me. I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first. You read Judy Blume and you think, "This is kind of cool." But when it actually started happening to me, I was terrified.”
“Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.”
“Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.”
“Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.”
“Public 'career feminists' have been more concerned with getting more women into 'boardrooms,' when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire.”
Source: Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
“Public acceptance will never replace self-love. Nor will group membership add, create, or dictate your value.”
Source: 12 Keys to Success for Misfits, Weirdos & Introverts: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Understanding Your Place in the World
“Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.”
“Public administration in a nation should be so effective for its people that they should be comparing efficiency by saying, as good as government.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.”
Source: The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
“Public agency is emergent, and the ability of the public to literally put any bank or corporation out of business overnight is looming. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, you cannot screw all of the people all of the time. We're there. All we lack is a major precipitant – our Tunisian fruit seller. When it happens the revolution will be deep and lasting.”
“Public and civic value require commitment and hard work among the core group of participants. It also requires that these groups be self-governing and submit to constraints that help them ignore distracting and entertaining material and stay focused instead of some sophisticated task.”
Source: Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
“Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.”
“Public and private funds have been thrown around like confetti at a country fair, to close up and destroy clinics, hospitals, and scientific research laboratories which do not conform to the viewpoint of medical associations.”