Quotes About Psychology

when highly sensitive patients had experienced a trauma, sexual or otherwise, they had been unusually affected and so developed a neurosis.

But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes.

It is not surprising that artists turn to drugs, alcohol, and medications to control their arousal or to recontact their inner self. But the long-term effect is a body further off balance. Moreover, it is part of the myth or archetype of the artist that any psychological help will destroy creativity by making the artist too normal.

Learning a little about one's shadow (you never know a lot or enough) is the best and perhaps only way to be free of the straitjacket of oversocialization that HSPs often don in childhood.

For example, Kagan found that babies who later showed this trait also had cooler foreheads on the right side of their head, which indicates greater activity on the right side of the brain. (The blood is drawn away from the surface toward the activity.)

clear thinking find that unless people have some emotional reason to learn something, they do not learn it very well or at all. This is why tests are given—to motivate learners to have that thrill of a good score or distress of a poor one, and we have found that

Psychologists have asked me (and I'm sure more only thought but didn't ask), "How could you have discovered an entirely new trait?" The answer is that sensitivity is not new at all but just difficult to observe by watching how people behave, which is usually how psychology proceeds.

I think relationship problems are still social, not genetic.

unless people have some emotional reason to learn something, they do not learn it very well or at all.

love is a force in human psychology that never disappears.

Devoid of the poetry of madness.

Children of narcissists emerge from this crucible with a common and most serious problem. They feel that they do not have the right to exist.

Achieving and then losing again can be more painful than not achieving at all, which is why many children of narcissists do so little. Barely functioning defends us from loss.

Most people will be surprised (and horrified) to know that the epigraph for this chapter was taken from a quote found in a 1960 CIA study on brainwashing. The full quote is: "We know now that men can be made to do exactly anything.…It's all a question of finding the right means. If only we take enough trouble and go sufficiently slowly, we can make him kill his aged parents and eat them in a stew."1

Although not as exaggerated as the grandiosity of the narcissistically defended child, the codependent child now manifests a measure of grandiosity in her own right—the extraordinary helper.

J'espérais que ça passerait, mais infériorité et honte ne firent que s'intensifier.

The Enneagram is not a system of personality, as it is so often presented, but rather a definition of character fixation. The same character fixation can manifest across a full range of personalities. Jack Nicholson and Slobodan Milosevic have the same character fixation but different personalities.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Previously, I had believed that the sadness came first, and tears were a result, but the reality was clearly more complicated, because once the tears didn't come, the sadness somehow bottomed out, became shallower. What if the way Zoloft worked was just by dehydrating you?

When I got back to school in the fall, I changed my major from linguistics and didn't take any more classes in the philosophy or psychology of language. They had let me down. I hadn't learned what I had wanted to about how language worked. I hadn't learned anything at all.

When I got back to school in the fall, I changed my major from linguistics and didn't take any more classes in the philosophy or psychology of language. They had let me down. I hadn't learned what I wanted to about how language worked. I hadn't learned anything at all.

the way you feel annoyed toward someone in real life after they say something mean to you in a dream.

Momilo had once explained to me the mentality of Bosnia's killers in a few short words: 'In the morning they hate themselves, in the afternoon the world.' So, Momilo, where are you now?