Therapist in a box


For Christmas, I received a joke gift labeled, “Therapist in a Box”, sold by Barnes & Noble. In the little box there is a rubber chair for the therapist and a little timer that sits in the chair, a humorous factbook about psychotherapy and 10 cards with interesting quotes on them. I’m going to share a few of better quotes:

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Thomas Szasz, MD
A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions that your wife will ask for free. Joey Adams, comedian
The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. Sigmund Freud
Men will always be mad, and those that think they can cure them are the maddest of them all. Voltaire
And here’s my favorite:
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they are okay, then its you.”  Rita Mae Brown.

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  1. PSmith's avatar PSmith

    How about this one I heard in the last day or so, which I believe might be a combination of Roseann-Rosannadanna and Freud:

    “If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.”

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