“I tried to change the conventional paradigm, for example, by insisting on the reality of mind-body interaction, by stressing the importance of natural therapies, by focusing attention on lifestyle issues, by looking at worthwhile aspects of alternative medicine. Many people have been threatened by that. Doctors especially tend to think that they know everything about the human body, and don't realize that medical education has really omitted many very important subjects.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindHumansHas BeensImportantBodyRealityRealizingNaturalAttentionIssuesSubjectsExampleAspectDoctorsImportanceStressMedicineMedicalLifestyleAlternativesTherapyWorthwhileInteractionConventionalThreatenedHuman BodyParadigmInsistingMind BodyAlternative MedicineMedical Education Author:Andrew Weil
“Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.” ThinkingWritingUseAbleLessonsMemoirTherapy Author:Jane Fonda
“Actually, I very much dislike routine. Creating music is my chaos therapy. The writing process puts me in a good place. Recording the music is the release of however I felt in the song.” WritingSongFeltProcessCreatingMusic IsChaosReleaseTherapyRoutineDislikeWriting ProcessGood PlaceCreating Music Author:Mpho Koaho
“Most people may not realize the tremendous value that therapy/companion/comfort animals have for the purposes of easing the suffering of those with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), particularly within the military.” PeopleMayPurposeSufferingValuesRealizingAnimalBrainMilitaryComfortTherapyInjuryCompanionPtsdBrain InjuryTraumatic Brain Injury Author:Ken Wahl
“I have more than thirty thousand hours of family and relationship counseling experience under my belt. Over the years, I have seen changes in relationship trends walk through my therapy office doors. My richest gifts are translating the complexities of love and desire in modern relationships into something simple and accessible. I can offer informed advice that makes people feel comfortable, knowledgeable, and confident.” PeopleFeelsYearsI CanDesireHoursSimpleWalksDoorsModernAdviceOffersThousandOfficeComfortableTherapyThirtyComplexityTrendsTranslateBeltsKnowledgeableCounseling Author:Esther Perel
“I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive.” PeopleYearsBelieveTogetherFeltMarriedDivorceI RealizedTherapyDestructiveStayingStaying Together Author:Regina King
“There's about 100 different cancers in a cancer cell. And so what we're finding out is, they're finding out ways to deal with one or two of the cancers there, with certain medicines. But they don't know why, if you have that cancer and I have that cancer, and I get the therapy and you get it, I don't live and you live. That - they don't know why.” IfsKnowsWayTwoDifferentCertainDealsFindingsMedicineCancerCellsTherapy Author:Joe Biden
“I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music.” ArtChristianBornReligiousOne ThingTvsYeahTherapyThings In LifeStrictOutletsArt And MusicReligious Family Author:DJ Ashba
“I studied Sanskrit for many years, and I've got all the coursework for my Ph.D. And a lot of what's going on in American Yoga is just made-up stuff. Smart people, even good people, Western therapists, Yoga therapists and other things, Western healthcare practitioners who love Asana and say, "Let's make up yoga therapy."” PeopleYearsMadeStuffSmartYogaWesternTherapyGood PeopleHealthcareTherapistsSmart PeopleAsanaSanskrit Author:Gary Kraftsow
“For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.” PeopleShouldMindBelievePersonsWholeBodyCarePainSpiritYogaAppreciateMedicineTechniqueMedicalCombinationTherapyAddressesPrescriptionsMassageMind BodyMedical CareComplementaryMind Body And SpiritAcupuncturePhysical Therapy Author:Naomi Judd
“Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.” PaySmokeTherapySessionCigarCuban Cigars Author:Raul Julia
“Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.” WayWantNeedsKindArtistPaintTherapyMold Author:Erykah Badu
“I run; that's sort of my meditation. I've been to therapy in the past when I've had crisis moments in my life; I think it's very healthy. I think that's even a more acceptable attitude in America actually than it is probably back at home [in England].” ThinkingMomentsHomeRunningAmericaPastAttitudeMeditationHealthyEnglandCrisisTherapyAcceptable Author:Natalie Dormer
“Opioid replacement therapy is the standard evidence-based model to treat people with acute opioid addiction, and that is unassailable according to every research study that's been done. If that is the evidence-based model, then why can't we meet the large-scale need that's out there? We can't because one, there aren't enough doctors who can prescribe [drugs like methadone], and two, there are these artificial limits [by insurers] on who doctors can prescribe to.” PeopleIfsNeedsTwoDoneEnoughStudyDrugLimitsModelsStandardsResearchEvidenceDoctorsTreatsAddictionScalesTherapyArtificialDoctor WhoReplacementsLarge ScaleOpioidsResearch StudyMethadone Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“Our contention is not that medication alone is the answer. We really need to have it in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy and with peer support. And that needs to be reimbursed [by health insurers], because it shows huge reductions in overall spending.” NeedsShowsAnswersSupportHugeSpendingTherapyPeersReductionMedicationCognitiveContentionConjunctionsCognitive Behavioral Therapy Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?” IfsWorldReasonProblemTodayAmericaLostHappeningsDoctorsAngryLeavingUniversityReason WhyTherapyFacultySessionDoctor WhoNigeriaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisPhysical TherapyComing To America Author:Chinua Achebe
“One patient had severe pre-treatment pain resulting from skeletal meta-stases...at 5 weeks after the onset of (laetrile and metabolic) therapy, she claimed complete relief.” AgePainDarkWeekPatientMedicalTherapyReliefTreatmentSevereDark AgesStasis Author:Charles Moertel
“You have to ask yourself a lot of questions and probably go to therapy to make sure that you're not someone who's in love with themselves. And also if you're vain enough, then you know that is a bad look!” IfsKnowsLooksEnoughAsksVainTherapy Author:Sophia Amoruso
“I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.” WantGivingYearsMadeTwoSchoolGrewSpeechGrew UpTiredHorribleAwfulTherapyReportsTwo YearsTerrifiedRetreatI'm TiredFew FriendsSpeech Therapy Author:Tim Gunn
“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.” GivingBodyResultsBalanceGiving UpMedicineAvailableTherapyNot Giving Up Author:Linda Hamilton
“If you're worried about a kid and drug use, the safest, best thing to do is individual counseling or family therapy, none of which will expose kids to more deviant or problematic peers and both of which are proven to be effective and at the very least, they won't hurt.” IfsUseKidsIndividualHurtDrugWorriedBest ThingsTherapyThings To DoPeersProvenCounselingDrug UseDeviants Author:Maia Szalavitz
“The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the person really feels understood. That matters often even more than the technique.” FeelsPersonsMatterUnderstoodTechniquePsychologicalTherapyOutcomesInterventionTherapists Author:Maia Szalavitz
“One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.” PeopleThinkingWayCultureMoralIssuesRelationIntuitionOne WayTherapyCognitiveOther CulturesCognitive Therapy Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo
“I'm not talking about just Donald Trump's politics - it's what he's brought up. It's a real conversation. We're just people trying to fall in love as nations and human beings. We need therapy, man. The world does.” PeopleMenWorldNeedsTryingHumansDoeRealFallNationsHuman BeingsTalkingTrumpConversationFalling In LoveTherapyNot TalkingReal Conversation Author:Michael Buble
“I travel internationally a lot and I have a hard time sleeping and staying awake normally after crossing multiple time zones, especially going east. I've tried light therapy but not found it too helpful.” HardLightFoundSleepEastTherapyAwakeHard TimesZoneStayingHelpfulMultipleCrossingsTime Zones Author:William Gurstelle
“People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.” PeopleRealNostalgiaErasTherapyReal Things Author:Charlie Brooker
“In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us.” PeopleIfsImportantHappensTodayOur LivesTherapyFarmsEmployedOld PeopleMassageSpas Author:Bill Gates
“I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.” TherapyShockEconomistShock Therapy Author:Diane Kochilas
“I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in the things that I do, to have an absence of fear. Listening to Earl Sweatshirt's music is like therapy to me.” HonestyInspireListeningMusic IsAbsenceRelateTherapyBoardsSweatshirts Author:Erykah Badu
“By taking the time to explore charged memories in therapy we might uncover feelings that have been buried for decades.” Has BeensFeelingsMightMemoriesDecadesTherapyBuried Author:Tara Brach
“It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning those stories will be a fruitless looping until we learn how to move from the story into our body. This is why therapy alone often doesn't bring full healing and awakening.” TryingMindStoriesProblemBodyMovingNaturalHealingWork OutAwakeningTherapyMechanismReplay Author:Tara Brach
“I just try to live a moderate life of always checking and trying to be the best person I can be and I'm in therapy and am always working on something.” TryingPersonsI CanTherapyBeing The BestModeratesAlways WorkingBest Person Author:Jen Kirkman
“The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.” SelfFormPossibilityDeterminationProtectionAidsTherapySelf DeterminationExtendingReparationsPaternalism Author:Judith Butler
“Is individual gender suffering relieved at the price of role conformity and the perpetuation of role stereotypes on a social level? In changing sex, does the transsexual encourage a sexist society whose continued existence depends upon the perpetuation of these roles and stereotypes? These and similar questions are seldom raised in transsexual therapy at present.” DoeSufferingIndividualSocialSexLevelsExistenceRolesDependsRaisedGenderTherapyConformityStereotypeRelievedSexistTranssexuals Author:Janice Raymond
“Donald Trump feels like he doesn't get the credit for being a legitimate president. He should have therapy over that legitimacy thing.” FeelsShouldPresidentTrumpShould HaveCreditTherapyLegitimacy Author:Stephanie Cutter
“I knew that I was naturally good at [therapy] because I was kind of that person in my circle of people in my life.” PeopleKindPersonsCirclesTherapy Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“Brenda [Carlin] went into therapy and I soon joined her. First we put the drugs behind us, then we began serious work on our relationship. And, in time, we got well together.She just drove through a hotel lobby. Now, that's bottoming out.” FirstsWellsTogetherBehindsSeriousDrugTherapyHotelOur RelationshipSerious WorkHotel Lobby Author:George Carlin
“I come from a place of darkness when I write because I'm always trying to figure things out. It's kind of like my own therapy when I write music. It's me working through my own problems hopefully. And putting it into a song.” WritingTryingKindProblemSongMy OwnDarknessFiguresHopefullyTherapyAlways Trying Author:Skylar Grey
“I don't think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can't find them and then we feel looked at and studied and that's part of what is damaging to us. It's hard to find therapy that is actually a tool for your own liberation. I think we can be really distrustful.” ThinkingFeelsHardBlackColorBecomingToolsLiberationTherapyBlack WomenPsychiatrist Author:Morgan Parker
“There are abusive practices that have been used in connection with various mental attitudes or feelings. Over-medication in respect to depression is an example that comes to mind. The aversive therapies that have been used in connection with same-sex attraction have contained some serious abuses that have been recognized over time within the professions.” MindHas BeensFeelingsUsedSexAttitudePracticeExampleSeriousConnectionsAbuseVariousAttractionProfessionTherapyMedicationAbusiveMental Attitude Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.” WayArtistSongSingingTherapySessionBalladsCathartic Author:Tim McGraw
“I think that feminism permits women to speak among themselves, instead of simply being resentful, having personal complaints, which get them nowhere and which make them sick and ill-tempered, depressive and poison the lives of their husbands and children. It's much better to arrive at a collective consciousness of this problem, which is both a kind of therapy and the basis for a struggle.” ThinkingKindChildrenProblemSpeakConsciousnessStruggleFeminismHusbandSickBasesIllTherapyPoisonCollectivesPermitComplaintsResentfulDepressiveCollective ConsciousnessIll Tempered Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into the personal. A withdrawal from thinking in terms of social and collective values, needs and solutions. The consciousness-raising groups of the women's movement, for instance, becoming "support-groups" or therapy groups.” ThinkingNeedsHas BeensStatesValuesSocialTermConsciousnessSupportGroupsMovementHugeBecomingSolutionsInstanceTherapyCollectivesSixtySeventiesWithdrawalSupport Groups Author:Adrienne Rich
“We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.” PeopleHumansKindNationsConsciousnessSupportGroupsShareConditionsHealTherapyFascismDeniedHuman ConditionRepressionPsychologistRationalismUnderworldMilieuSupport Groups Author:Adrienne Rich
“When I was diagnosed, mothers were blamed for causing autism. There was no autism support. They'd put autistic kids in institutions. I had severe autism. But my mom wouldn't accept that. I was put in speech therapy. My mother was always pushing me to do stuff.” KidsMotherStuffAcceptingSupportMomSpeechInstitutionsMy MomTherapyPushingAutismSevereAutisticSpeech Therapy Author:Temple Grandin
“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. Then I found that it intensively went into every irrelevancy under the sun - and that it didn't work. People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.” PeopleFormFoundSunDeeperInsightBotherTherapyDamnPsychoanalysisDamn Things Author:Albert Ellis
“My rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) was one of the very few therapies that was originated partly or largely because I wanted to be brief and efficient. And therefore right from the start I was active and directive. I tried to show people some central masturbatory core to their philosophy and to get them to work at changing it cognitively, emotionally and behaviorally.” PeoplePhilosophyShowsWantedBehaviorActiveCoreRationalTherapyEfficient Author:Albert Ellis
“The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Most of cognitive therapy has now adopted a similar idea. On the other hand, the relationship part of psychoanalysis - where you must have a deep, emotional relationship with the client - will, I think, get kicked in the teeth one of these days.” PeopleThinkingIdeasHandsDiesExampleEmotionalTraditionTeethThese DaysTherapyMotiveClientsAdoptedPsychoanalysisCognitiveCognitive TherapyDeep EmotionalEmotional Relationship Author:Albert Ellis