Quotes About Psychology

I probably suffered from a narcissistic disorder in some way.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

I'd definitely say I'm a depressive, someone who suffers from depression.

We just learned about this fetish where guys just give women money and know that they are spending their money. It's not like a sugar daddy thing. It's like financial domination, or something like that. These guys just want to give you money.

There are a lot of studies that suggest a higher rate of creativity in bipolars than the general population.

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.

None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.

I talk to a lot of people who, when you try to sum them up in a couple of sentences, seem like they must be insane.

Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Is it not peculiar that nearly all of the great philosophers and psychologists have always paid attention to the earth and nothing but the earth? Would it not be more sublime to lift our eyes from this crumb, and instead of considering a speck of dust in the universe, to turn our attention to space itself?

There is the power of complexions, obviously modifying the dispositions and sentiments.

I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

My colleagues and I were 9 to 5 psychologists: we came to work every day and we did our psychology, just like you would do insurance or auto mechanics, and then at 5 we went home and were just as neurotic as we were before we went to work. Somehow, it seemed to me, if all of this theory were right, it should play more intimately into my own life.

of it. I felt that the theories I was teaching in psychology didn't make it, that the psychologists didn't really have a grasp of the human condition, and that the theories I was teaching, which

Both psychological research and Scripture demonstrate that those who give generously and serve others are happy people.

Assumptions are what the brain is best at. Some days, I suspect that makes us despair.

Cuando uno de estos patrones se fragmenta, decimos que la persona está «perdiendo la cabeza».

People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.