Quotes About Psychology

psikoloji profesörü olan Jan Tonnes­vang'?n söyledi?ine göre, herkesin bir "ustal?k" duygusuna bir alanda iyi oldu?unu hissetmeye ihtiyac? var. ?nsan?n temel psikolojik ih­tiyaçlar?ndan biri bu. Bir konuda iyi oldu?unuzu hissetti?inizde ona çok daha kolay odaklanabiliyorsunuz; beceriksiz oldu?unuzu hissetti?inizde ise dikkatiniz da??l?p gidiyor.

The stunning thing was that loneliness is not merely the result of depression," he told me. "Indeed—it leads to depression.

The public was being told two clashing things. First, that the symptoms of depression are straightforwardly the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain that has to be fixed with drugs. Second, that somehow, and at the same time, there was one unique situation where all the symptoms of depression were, in fact, a response to something terrible happening in your life, and in that one unique case, a chemical imbalance is not the cause, and drugs are not the solution.

It fascinated me that you could change behavior so dramatically by changing brain chemistry….

Some scientists in the field believe that dreaming somehow helps you to adapt emotionally to waking events.

Curiously, it turned out emotional abuse was more likely12 to cause depression than any other kind of trauma—even sexual molestation. Being treated cruelly by your parents was the biggest driver of depression, out of all these categories.

In most cases, Joanne says, we would have to stop talking about "mental health"—which conjures pictures of brain scans and defective synapses—and start talking about "emotional health." "Why do we call it mental health?" she asked me. "Because we want to scientize it. We want to make it sound scientific. But it's our emotions.

clinical depression is an understandable response to adversity.

Cuanta más desigualdad hay en una sociedad, más extendida está toda suerte de enfermedades mentales.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

The FEAR of becoming dehydrated causes dehydration. As with so many things in our life, it is because we KNOW it is a problem that it is a problem.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

Stuff happens when you are a kid, it scars you inside for life.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.