Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
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.
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
I love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.
The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.
I've been in therapy my whole life.
I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.