Macbeth:
“How does your patient, Doctor?”
Doctor:
“Not so sick, my lord,
As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies
That keep her from her rest.”
Macbeth:
“Cure her of that.
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?”
Doctor:
“Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
Macbeth:
“Throw physic to the dogs! I’ll none of it.”
Macbeth: Line 52 to 58“
If thou couldst, Doctor, cast
The water of my land, find her disease,
And purge it to a sound and pristine health,
I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That would applaud again. – Pull’t off, I say.” – |
The pace of counseling treatment is often slower than our wish
(and that of our loved ones) to have a cure. How does this quoted
Shakespeare apply to your treatment motivation? Is there some part
of your treatment plan that you must do yourself? |
