Quotes about Therapy

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

Psycho-analysis — that is... confession without absolution.

For me exercise is more than just physical, it's therapeutic.

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I have found therapy to be of limited usefulness, constrained in ways that religion is not, because it consistently falls short of mystery, by which I mean a profound simplicity that allows for paradox and poetry. In therapy I am likely to be searching for explanations, causes, and definitions, information that will help me change my behavior in healthful ways. But wisdom is the goal of spiritual seeking, and it is religion's true home.

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, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

The concept of sin does not exist so that people who may need therapy more than theology can be convinced that they are evil and beyond hope. It is meant to encourage people to believe that they are made in the image of God and to act accordingly. Hope is the heart of it, and the ever-present possibility of transformation.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Of course, this was no therapy in the proper sense since, first, his despair was no disease; and second, I could not change his fate; I could not revive his wife. But in that moment I did succeed in changing his attitude toward his unalterable fate inasmuch as from that time on he could at least see a meaning in his suffering.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

In actual fact, boredom is now causing, and certainly bringing to psychiatrists, more problems to solve than distress.