Quotes About Psychology

more than we understand, most people deal constantly with fear. "I'm not afraid," we know you are saying to yourself right now. "I feel fine." And you are right. You do not feel your fear. The reason you do not is because you are dealing with it. Though you are not aware of it, you have created a very effective anxiety-management system, and that system is what we call the immunity to change.

In recounting his first crime, the serial killer, Ted Bundy, recalled that he felt disgusted with what he had done. Ramirez may have experienced similar emotional turmoil – at first. Then he likely revisited the crime in his mind, reliving the rape and murder over and over again.

As Kai Erikson has put it, traumatised people 'may be said to have experienced not only a) a changed sense of self and b) a changed way of relating to others but c) a changed world view altogether'. In that first

It is important to understand that most people have narcissistic pathology, so this is not to dismiss Jung. We all have narcissistic problems. Someone has suggested that we need a "Humans Anonymous Twelve Step Program," to help everyday people deal with their residual narcissistic pathology, and I agree. It's another way of saying that we need a more practical approach to our spirituality if we are to be effective in containing and channeling our grandiose energies.

Our egos are the the chair of the board. And the board members are the archetypes within us. Each needs to be heard from. Each needs to stand on its own and provide its input. But the whole person under the supervision of the Ego needs to make the final decision in our lives.

How well we transform ourselves from men living our lives under the power of Boy psychology to real men guided by the archetypes of Man psychology will have a decisive effect on the outcome of our present world situation.

The conclusion of both modern physics and depth psychology is that things are not what they seem. What we experience as normal reality—about ourselves and nature—is only the tip of an iceberg that arises out of an unfathomable abyss. Knowledge of this hidden realm is the province of the Magician, and it is through the Magician energy that we will come to understand our lives with a degree of profundity not dreamed of for at least a thousand years of Western history.

The months since their marriage had demonstrated that the couple share a common character flaw – they both have a tendency to cascade downwards from their peaks of generous self-confidence into miserable moments of self-pitying victimhood. They see the world as hostile and start behaving in self-destructive ways that make that hostility come to pass.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

The roots of workaholism are truly sown in narcissistic homes; 'I do, therefore I am

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

On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

In other words, the default state is to trust, and what the amygdala does is learn vigilance and distrust.

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)

Testosterone makes people cocky, egocentric, and narcissistic.

pain makes aggressive people more aggressive, while doing the opposite to unaggressive individuals.

Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.

psychological research clearly shows that people who feel underappreciated tend to resent criticism and ignore the advice they're given.

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

Sometimes relationships are an attempt to complete the self the same way it was completed in the original family system.

The most common and important triangle that people find when they begin to examine their patterns is the one that was formed between themselves and their two parents or caregivers at birth.

They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions. Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.

people don't want to believe the truth about themselves. They get some mental picture of themselves and then they devil the poor old body, trying to make it like the picture. When it won't obey-can't obey, of course-they are mad at it, and live in it as if it were an unsatisfactory house they were hoping to move out of.