Quotes About Psychopathology

The study of slips is the study of the psychology of everyday errors—what Freud called "the psychopathology of everyday life." Freud believed that slips have hidden, dark meanings, but most are accounted for by rather simple mental mechanisms.

The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. —Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Believing a patient's lies is not a professional failure. Psychiatrists are trained to detect, understand, and treat psychopathology, not to function as lie detectors. While a certain level of suspicion is essential in the practice of psychiatry, clinicians, determined never to be taken in by deceitful patients, will approach them with such exaggerated suspicion that therapeutic work will be impossible.

His clinical interests center around issues of borderline psychopathology, violence, and early attachment relationships.