Quotes About Regression

In many ways, Trump appeals to people's smallness, their fears, whatever part of them wants to look backward.

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.

His favoured objects of contemplation were economic facts, usually in statistical form. He used to say that his best ideas came to him from 'messing about with figures and seeing what they must mean'. Yet he was famously sceptical about econometrics – the use of statistical methods for forecasting purposes. He championed the cause of better statistics, not to provide material for the regression coefficient, but for the intuition of the economist to play on.

Unfortunately, few adults arrive at maturity without experiencing considerable distress. The degree of regression that occurs and its longevity are a function of many variables. The most significant predisposing factor is the amount of emotional deprivation and unnecessary frustration caused by inadequate or insensitive mothering.

Regression is defined here as a psychological retreat to a prior stage of development in order to reduce fear and foster an illusion of security.

In other words, the regressed individual either defers to authority or acts out a critical, parental role, neither of which represents a genuine adult response.

What is it about returning to my mother's house that immediately turns me into a five-year-old?

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

Intense fatigue or illness may also weaken the control of the cortex. Hence we find tired or sick persons responding to threats with a greater degree of undifferentiated anxiety. In psychoanalytic terms, we would speak of this as regression.

And no matter how seemingly healthy and spiritually evolved we are, there is still a part of us, however small, that does not want us to exert ourselves, that clings to the old and familiar, fearful of any change or effort, desiring comfort at any cost and absence of pain at any price, even if the penalty be ineffectiveness, stagnation or regression.

But remember, the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point, and that's exactly what many criminologists argue happens with punishment.

Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

I think in this league, that's how it works. You're either getting better or you're getting worse.

At times, I find that TV today has taken so many steps backwards and has become so regressive as compared to the kind of wit in shows from the '80s and '90s.

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

T]he primary motive for the illness is the pleasure itself of remaining in the secure retreat of the childish situation once so unwillingly left behind.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The moment right now, it's a tragically regressive time we live in, you know. We just grounded the Concorde. Where's the future? We've lost the future.

In us humans evolution has now become conscious of itself. We have the freedom to choose or reject opportunities to carry the evolutionary adventure into a new future. The fact that we don't always seem to be making much headway-and indeed often seem to be regressing-is not sufficient reason for discouragement.

Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.

Kahneman later wrote: This was a joyous moment, in which I understood an important truth about the world: because we tend to reward others when they do well and punish them when they do badly, and because there is regression to the mean, it is part of the human condition that we are statistically punished for rewarding others and rewarded for punishing them.