Susie Orbach Quotes

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

I think that's the function of a lot of psychiatrists and therapists, is keeping people afloat just long enough for them to get older.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Material things are not helpful after a certain degree of saturation. So you turn to other products. I think that therapy is a product that can transform you. But why does it need to be packaged as a product? Why can't I work on myself with my friends and family?

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

Emotional stability has not been America's gift to the world.

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

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.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotional tie to your life.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

The thoughts of my emotionally so disturbed days must be found again, shifted and developed further. Here and there something of the loose remarks I make must be used, but only when it finds my attention again.

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

I don't know how people can live without a therapist.

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

I just want people to know I'm mentally strong.

Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process.

I'm too neurotic to be a therapist.

I never even think of the mental side of things because I never had any issues.

It's very important for me to do things like talk therapy. That's where you begin to see the walls that your illness has put up as a way to protect yourself... but of course, those walls also keep us from getting to the truth of things.

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.