Psychoterapy Quotes

“Frank (...) továbbra is eljárt a terápiás ülésekre. A hír terjedt, és egyre több férfi jelent meg, az alagsorban a székek fele már foglalt volt. Azt mondták, "változást akarnak". Azt mondták, "rendbe akarják hozni az életüket". Azt mondták, "nem akarnak mindig ilyen kibaszott idegesek lenni".”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Both Zizek and early Hegelians hint at some sort of state that is both beyond and within reality, both an escape and a hyper-examination that allows for some sort of becoming that does not escape ideology, but at least to some degree has a self that knows the game which the mind is playing and is not fooling itself.”
― Eliot Rosenstock, Žižek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy

“We live times in witch as a psychotherapist is required patience more then ever...”
― Monica Rus Carmen psychologyst

“Technocapital is flowing at hyperspeed and is primed to grab onto our drives and pull us toward capitalistic integration into the will of the Other; therefore, now more than ever, we as a species need a conscious psychoeducation.”
― Eliot Rosenstock, Žižek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy

“Capital recapturing the system of the psychotherapy industry ensures that the main goal of client improvement for client improvement sake is replaced by goals that are more marketable, such as fewer bad feelings or a better-behaved child for your parental dollar investment. Progress that isn’t immediately understood by a lay person may be tossed aside as unimportant, but these complex concepts simply are not unimportant.”
― Eliot Rosenstock, Žižek in the Clinic: A Revolutionary Proposal for a New Endgame in Psychotherapy