Became Quote by Hattie Morahan

I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes…

— Robert Smith

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life…

— Henry Miller

It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital…

— Richard Wright

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

— Scott Jurek

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

— Ed Asner

For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from…

— Eve Ensler

Whenever I was presented with hardships - trauma, pain, heartbreak, confusion - I, like so many creatives, turned to my art as medicine.

— Raye

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

— Alanis Morissette

Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was…

— Porochista Khakpour

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

— Helen Garner

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that…

— Robert Rauschenberg