'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.
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.
I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.
There's a stigma on the word 'therapy.' People relate it to big problems. That's something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as 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 love therapy. I swear by therapy. I couldn't exist without therapy.
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.
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 don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.