Diane Keaton Quotes

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it.

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

I believe deeply in therapy. There's no one in the world who wouldn't benefit from it.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

Once I went through therapy, it completely changed my life.

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

My mom being a psychotherapist, I've been brought up with that whole psychoanalytical terrain.

If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.

I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.

Personally, I think I've got split personalities, and I may need a psychiatrist. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seriously. I'm serious about this.

I think that therapy is great and can be incredibly helpful.

I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.

I did something that I told people around me never to do, which was, pay a psychiatrist. Why pay a psychiatrist when you can just come to me? I can help you with something going on in your life; even if I know nothing about you, I can possibly help you. That's just me being cocky like I am.

Derek, my husband, is a psychotherapist.

I've had a lot of therapy in my life.

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.

Specifically, my time in therapy has changed my life. It was such a relief to have a trained professional listen to my thoughts and help me positively restructure my thinking.