Quotes About Psychology

Shame, turned inside out, is rage.

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

The warped perception of time is a hallmark of trauma.

Oh, wait a minute—when have I seen this before? Got another girlfriend, Daddy? Ready for round two in divorce court? Don't forget to line up a good shrink for Emma; she thinks you're a god.

Dr. StupidParker says that when I'm sad it really means I'm angry and when I'm angry it really means I'm afraid.

Dr Freud has many insightful conclusions about the human mind," I continued bitterly, "but when it comes to women, he might do better investigating the male sex's preoccupation with cigars.

Your unconscious mind takes the things you can't handle and plays with them while you sleep until some of the sharp corners are worn off.

A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too easily. You do this to see if his psyche has any real bounce in it, for the secret of healing is in the patient and not the doctor.

Even "time is money" comes into the picture; and then, if you think that money is excrement for the Freudian, you understand that time must be also!

effect of place upon human temperaments.

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

The funniest people are the saddest ones

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.