Quotes About Psychology

Fully 43 percent of the time, our actions are habitual, performed without conscious thought. We had provided the first scientific estimate of how often people act out of habit. It turned out to be a lot higher than science at the time had assumed.

The good effects that we popularly ascribe to "self-control" are, it seems, more accurately captured by situational control.24 The studies and stories just cited established this mechanism, a mechanism that will undergird every part of habit formation.

In psychology we have a name for the automatic scripts our brains piece together when we repeatedly do the same thing in the same way: procedural memory. It's such an important repository of information that only the most frequently repeated patterns get stored like this.

Note that a loss of interest and pleasure in life is enough for a diagnosis of Major Depressive Episode—the presence of sadness, hopelessness, or depressed mood is not necessary.

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure."

The socially irresponsible man is the man absorbed in sexual conflicts.

Most of what official adolescent psychology considers the "characteristics of puberty," turn out in character-analytic work to be the artificially produced effect of obstructed natural sexuality. This holds true for daydreaming as well as for inferiority feelings.

The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

The fascist mentality is a mentality of the subjugated "little man" who craves authority and rebels against it at the same time

Bir ?eyi ne denli az anlarsan, o denli çok sayg? gösteriyor, onun kar??s?nda boyun e?iyorsun. Hitler'i Nietzsche'den, Napolyon'u da Pestalozzi'den daha iyi tan?yorsun. Sana göre bir kral, Sigmund Freud'dan daha önemlidir.

Sinir hastal???, do?al cinsel hazza vurulan ketlerin toplam?ndan ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir, bu ketlemeler zamanla, makinemsi bir hale gelir. Sinir hastal???n?n bütün öbür belirtileri, bu kökensel bozuklu?un sonuçlar?d?r.

In real man, the "god-given" genital embrace has turned into the pornographic 4-lettering male-female intercourse.

A angústia é o equivalente negativo da excitação sexual; ao mesmo tempo, é equivalente a ela em termos de energia.

Cinsel etkinlikteki alsakl?klar sinir hastal?klar?n? do?uran enerjinin kayna??ysalar, cinsel ya?am bozuklu?uyla atba?? gitmeyen sinirce olamazd?. Sy.92

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

Multiple personalities. Don't freak out but I'm pretty sure I have them. Not a clinical thing, not a disease. But a distraction to be sure. There are maybe six or seven pretty concrete versions of myself knocking around in here and I mean it gets fucking crowded when everybody is drunk or talking at once.

One of the significant discoveries of cognitive psychologists in recent decades is that switching from one task to another is effortful, especially under time pressure.

The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.

Fast thinking includes both variants of intuitive thought—the expert and the heuristic

Charge the loss to your mental account of 'general revenue'—you will feel better!

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

For example, the question "Do you now feel a slight numbness in your left leg?" always prompts quite a few people to report that their left leg does indeed feel a little strange.

as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog.