Quotes About Psychology

Psycho-analysts usually refer to this process as introjecting a good object; meaning by this that the attachment figure has become part of the individual's inner world, and therefore someone on whom he can rely even though the person concerned is not actually present.

Man is a creature inescapably, and often unhappily, divided; and the divisions within him recurrently impel the use of his imagination to make new syntheses. The creative consequences of his imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

But attachment theory, in my view, does less than justice to the importance of work, to the emotional significance of what goes on in the mind of the individual when he is alone, and, more especially, to the central place occupied by the imagination in those who are capable of creative achievement. Intimate attachments are a hub around which a person's life revolves, not necessarily the hub.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this assumption.

The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.

I say 'told myself' because—and this became clearer to me later, I didn't know this back then, I wasn't wise to it—to put it bluntly, we never really know why we do what we do. The part of our brains tasked with generating reasons doesn't care about truth… only plausibility.

Phineas Gage's case is not the only important historical source in the effort to understand the neural basis of reasoning and decision making;

There remained the fear of dreams, which are incontrollable.

Perché in fondo l'abitudine è un rito, si crede di fare qualcosa come se fosse un piacere e in realtà si sta ubbidendo a un dovere che ci si è imposti. O anche uno scongiuro, pensò, forse l'abitudine è anche una forma di esorcismo, e poi la si sente come un piacere.

These 'mine-dogs', trained on Pavlovian principles, had been taught to run under large vehicles to obtain their food. The stick, catching against the underside, would detonate the charge. Most of the dogs were shot before they reached their target, but this macabre tactic had an unnerving effect. It

People were shown an online report through a fb post that a selfie is a mental disorder, and soon many of them started taking a selfie.

The microscopic view of the peoples' behavioural psychology shows that a person who wants only others to do & excludes oneself from own advice tends to have often thoughts with the word 'YOU'.

The real reason as why woman never proposes first is that she takes a sadistic pleasure to make man go weak on his knees to bend, bow and beg before her.

Anhedonia', which means the clinical inability to experience happiness.

How humiliating it is to encounter the fearful side of your psyche only to succumb like a blithering fool. My embarrassment at not being able to heal myself truly devastating.

Bruises heal more quickly than emotional scars do.

Adrenaline management," as I perceive it, is important for all of us, regardless of our basic personality type.

Knowing the basics of what causes anxiety is crucial to becoming the master of your emotions.

REM sleep can help us process emotional stress.

human beings cannot distinguish between real dangers and imagined ones.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Our bodies do not divide as neatly into male and female as many people commonly believe.4 Nor do our minds. As Magnus Hirschfeld, the pioneering early twentieth-century sexologist, argued, "the human is not a man or woman, but rather man and woman.

The Righteous Mind, for example, Jonathan Haidt