Quotes About Psychology

Freudian Slip: When You Mean One Thing And Say Your Mother.

The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.

It is said that "neurotics make themselves miserable; those with character disorders make everyone else miserable." Chief among the people character-disordered parents make miserable are their children. As in other areas of their lives, they fail to assume adequate responsibility for their parenting. They tend to brush off their children in thousands of little ways rather than provide them with needed attention.

It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health.

In the succinctly elegant words of Carl Jung, "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."2

We do this by a variety of means which psychiatrists call defense mechanisms. All of us employ such defenses, thereby limiting our awareness. If in our laziness and fear of suffering we massively defend our awareness, then it will come to pass that our understanding of the world will bear little or no relation to reality.

Transference is that set of ways of perceiving and responding to the world which is developed in childhood and which is usually entirely appropriate to the childhood environment (indeed, often life-saving) but which is inappropriately transferred into the adult environment.

Vindecarea constituie rezultatul iubirii. Este o functie a iubirii. Oriunde exista iubire exista vindecare. Si oriunde nu exista iubire exista totusi putina - dar pretionasa - vindecare. In mod paradoxal, o psihologie a raului trebuie sa fie o psihologie prin care se manifesta iubirea. Trebuie sa fie plina de iubire de viata.

Crescuti fara iubire, copiii ajung sa creada despre sine ca nu merita sa fie iubiti. Am putea spune ca aceasta este legea generala a dezvoltarii copiilor : ori de cate ori exista un deficit major in iubirea parentala, e foarte probabil ca respectivul copil sa raspunda la acest deficit presupunand ca el este cauza deficitului si dezvoltand, prin urmare, o imagine de sine negativa nerealista.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness.

words of Carl Jung, "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

The tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness. Since all of us have this tendency to a greater or lesser degree, all of us are mentally ill to a greater or lesser degree."- M. Scott Peck

Why is it that men are so good at turning their heaven into a hell?

daí a alegação de que não havia regra para a completa sanidade mental.

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent.

There is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation. —OLIVER SACKS

addiction is the psychiatric disorder with the highest odds of recovery, not

Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

There is a concept in cognitive psychology called the channel capacity, which refers to the amount of space in our brain for certain kinds of information.

Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder

the Four Horsemen: defensiveness, stonewalling, criticism, and contempt.