Quotes About Psychology

What makes us dream of some things and not others? Why might we pick up on a trivial event from the day and not something more important? Would it be possible to have someone dream of specific subjects by subtly suggesting those ideas?

So, what I do is a mixture of genuine psychological technique as well as all the chicanery and showmanship of the magician but it was enormously tempting to see what a clinical psychologist would make of it.

Derren Victor Brown

For me, the most enjoyable aspect of going out and performing is that I never know how susceptible people will be to my methods.

All of us can be influenced through psychological techniques. For example, if I say dont think of a black cat what do you do? You think of a black cat because the command think of a black cat was there in the sentence. Techniques like this can be used to influence peoples thoughts, behaviour, even their memory.

a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into how people think and act.

Frequently we imagine that we are behaving in a particular way because such behaviour accords with some abstract, lofty code of moral principles, when in reality all we are doing is obeying a deeply ingrained and long 'forgotten' set of purely imitative impressions.

The word 'love' is, in fact, the way we commonly describe the emotional feelings that accompany the imprinting process.

We are not rational creatures who feel; we are emotional creatures who rationalize.

that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness

Every victim will, given a chance, turn victimizer.

Deficits in mentalizing have also been linked with identity diffusion

a man who uses a woman for his own sexual gratification, but belittles her into thinking she is no good in bed, is not a dominant personality, but a submissive one.

Community does involve psychology stuff — which, in my opinion, is why roughly 90 percent of new communities fail. Forming a community is deeply psychological. Emotional pain and hidden expectations exert a powerful pull on people, and community founders are no exception. Put a group of people in a community visioning session, and you have dozens of different needs and expectations, known and unknown, ricocheting invisibly around the room.

El inconsciente es transgeneracional. Afirmemos esta idea central desde el comienzo: la transmisión es inevitable.

See, Jace never learned how to flirt properly, because he was raised by a murderous sociopath.

I have to put the worst of her into her.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

In brief, the Tree of Life is a compendium of science, psychology, philosophy and theology.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

There was some derangement in her equilibrium that kept her immune from her own decent

Ravnodušnost je, a ne mržnja, kraj svake ljubavi. Mržnja može da se ugasi i smeni obnovljenom ljubavlju, ?ak i ja?om no pre mržnje; ravnodušnost ni?im ne može da se izmeni. Ona je psihološka osnova svakog nemorala me?u ljudima i svake njihove surovosti.

If you don't manage your emotions, then your emotions will manage you.