Quotes About Psychology

Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.

Her mind, long harassed by distress, now yielded to imaginary terrors.

three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem to lack compassion for others. But the icy manipulations of that one percent are utterly fascinating. No one can be crueler than a woman without a conscience.

And, like all the others, I have been manipulated to suit Ted's needs. I don't feel particularly embarrassed or resentful about that. I was one of many, all of us intelligent, compassionate people who had no real comprehension of what possessed him, what drove him obsessively.

My different personalities leave me in peace now.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

I am not the property of the people who bred me. I am not the prisoner of the people with fancy psychiatric lingo in their heads and no love for me in their hearts.

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

Something in her demanded victimization and terror, so she corrupted my dreams, led me into dark places I had no wish to explore. It was no longer clear to me which of us was the victim. Perhaps we were victims of one another.

Humor is probably species specific

You who understand what a human mind can be, how can you bear it? I don't have the hundredth part of your mind and there are days when I think I'll go mad. I can feel it. Or hear it. It's more like hearing something creeping along the walls, just behind my head, getting closer and closer. A big insect, maybe a scorpion. A dry skittering, that's what madness sounds like to me.

Every master loves to fuck a slave. It is a law of nature, or maybe culture.

and finally his current self-awareness, tinged with compulsions whose origins he couldn't access or control.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

There is ample evidence that it is women who suppress women's sexuality more than men do. Despite feminist arguments about male patriarchal control, a range of psychological, sociological, and anthropological studies suggest quite the opposite.

Now I was beginning to understand how we could put horror in a little cubbyhole in our brains to deal with later.

Now I was beginning to understand how we can put the horror in a little cubbyhole in our brains to deal with later.

How I wish to fly with the geese away from dreary November days, the "freeze-up," and cruel winter. Away from loneliness, isolation, and anxiety bred by blizzards. Most every local person I've talked to grudgingly admits to an autumn apprehension. It is part and parcel of an Adirondacker's psychological makeup. The geese contaminate us with this strange depression on their southbound flight and cure us with their northbound. In between, we try to tolerate winter, each in his or her own way.

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…

The bed itself is an operating table where my dreams slice me to pieces.

Transformational Fiction teaches how to assess, understand, and heal sexuality.

The biological birth of the human infant and the psychological birth of the individual are not coincident in time. The former is a dramatic, observable, and well-circumscribed event; the latter a slowly unfolding intrapsychic process.

Despite the popular wisdom that we achieve success through positive visualization, it turns out that incorporating negative visualization makes us more likely to achieve our goals.