#therapy

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. ↗

— James Wolcott

#been #big #brady #bunch #celebrity

Even you, the professional helper, often mistaken for the enlightened Guru or Staretz, can become lost in your thoughts that you must be competent without fault. You may become enthralled with your identity as a professional, even the pressures of the culture of mastery that expects you to heal your clients without fail. Never mind all of the variables over which you have no control, it is up to you, according to the canons of mastery, to control the health and well-being of those for whom you provide professional care. This potentiates a furthering alienation between you and your clients. You are at risk to become, if you have not already, the one who does to your clients; to be the one the active subject acting upon the passive and receptive objects, your clients; to be the one in possession of special knowledge, technique and mastery. All of this conspires to coax or coerce you into treating your client as reduced, a mere case. Unawareness to these influences gives you little chance to consider their influence on your practice in the clinical setting, much less give attentive efforts to resist or change them. ↗

— Scott E. Spradlin

#dbt #dialectical-behavior-therapy #luce-irigaray #mastery #mental-health

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. ↗

— Judith Lewis Herman

#post-traumatic-stress #psychotherapy #taboo #trauma #truth

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#challenging #couples #ever #really #therapy

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body. ↗

— Katy Perry

#back #balancing #because #best #body

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy. ↗

— Emo Philips

#hello #says #speech #therapy #well

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#i #life #my life #need #therapy

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#demons #give #give me #heal #helps

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me. ↗

— Anne Heche

#been #father #had #hung #i