Quotes About Psychology

The human mind, with all its mystery, bears endless study. Doesn't it?

No one ever talks about issues like dissociative identity disorder, fugue, or psychotic breaks in anything but the most negative light. No one ever talks about how the personality does this type of thing to protect itself, to save itself, or how powerful and effective it is." I

solastalgia, a miserable tangle of solace, desolation, and nostalgia.

The French term un acte manqué describes a form of self-sabotage whereby the unconscious sets about wrecking – for whatever reason – what the conscious has built.

But weirdness is relative in the territory occupied by the mentally deranged.

Why do some of us turn menacing?' she whispered.

Some say it eases pain to lay a knife beneath the bed." "Is it true?" Alsy shrugged. "Likely not. But if the person thinks it, then the thinking eases the pain.

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe. 'Know thyself.' We try, sir.

Cute-and-furry was always an easier sell than carapaced-and-multilegged, for some obscure reason. Grownups, so unreasonable...

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form. H.P. LOVECRAFT, Supernatural Horror in Literature

Ghost Stories: Visits from the Deceased" December 2, 2008), the University of Goteborg found that over 80 percent of elderly people experienced hallucinations of their partner within a month after their passing. Almost

Nightmares have seasons like hurricanes.

We are dealing, she continues, with a mind, as Williams put it, like a bed all made up.

Thus, the brain remains plastic into adulthood and can be changed for the better through positive interpersonal relationships.

Despite the fact that childbearing has been delayed into the 20s and 30s, the brain still expects this to happen at 12 or 13 years of age.

There was no such thing as human nature, if by that one believed that certain reactions and responses were typical of all men.

Whenever he was about to commit some particularly heinous act, he first found a character flaw in the victim then proceeded with a serene conscience.

He completely misread Rockefeller's psychology.

Crecemos con el poderoso mensaje de nuestros progenitores calentándonos la cabeza y a menudo terminamos creyendo que sus deseos son nuestros deseos y que somos resposables de sus carencias

En su novela El diario de Edith, Patricia Highsmith, esa gran conocedora de los demonios del amor, decía que, en el paroxismo del dolor pasional, los hombres mataban y las mujeres se suicidaban. Pero no, no siempre era así.

La gripe de los desequilibrios mentales

de nosotros mismos hay muchísimo cuento: nos mentimos, nos imaginamos, nos engañamos.

She can hear the crazy thoughts that are going through your mind before you can even find them.

The trouble with psychology, said Wexford epigrammatically, 'is that it doesn't take human nature into account.