Quotes About Psychology

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

I don't think I'd feel any more violated if he'd stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all my flaws and my fears, inviting him to psychoanalyze me.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

But) a person grows up and becomes what he is due to the things that happen to him—and maybe he himself caused some of them and maybe other people caused others, and maybe his brain doesn't function just right.

She say guilt is a useless emotion. Oh, please, says Nancy. Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

I wonder whether you can tell me why it is that people always try so hard to hide their real feelings?

Carl Jung said that most painful issues can't be solved—they can only be outgrown, but that takes time and deep work.

Trauma, which is stored differently in the brain than memory, seeps out of us as warnings of worse to come.

She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality.