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Your unconscious wants to express the pain you feel about your own lost innocence. But your ego want...

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There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me ...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeMama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody sa...

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I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. D...

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint ca...

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint c...

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I explain to my patients that abused children often find it hard to disentangle themselves from thei...

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Irvin D. YalomMomma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

Why Cults Terrorize and Kill Children – LLOYD DEMAUSEThe Journal of Psychohistory 21 (4) 1994"Extend...

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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One...

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Oliver SacksThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

The cultural past is rigidly deterministic to the extent that the individual is unaware of it. An an...

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Rollo MayThe Meaning of Anxiety

Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they depr...

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Thomas SzaszCruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

A vast amount of psychiatric effort has been, and continues to be, devoted to legal and quasi-legal ...

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It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want ...

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I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is res...

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