Quotes About Psychology

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.

The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

In 2012 a landmark German study found that vegetarians are considerably more likely to have mental disorders than people who eat meat.

vegetarianism perpetuates (or even exacerbates) mental disorders.

Indeed, the alien abduction phenomenon seems to open abductees and those who work with them to deeper realms of human emotion, whether or not that is a specific "purpose" of the phenomenon.

The abduction phenomenon also seems to offer new perspectives on human destructiveness.

It seems clear to me at this time that we are not dealing with "false" or confabulated memories.

It is hard to imagine how the psyche could generate so intense a level of emotion without some kind of exposure to an extraordinary experience as the template for that emotion.

Psychiatric examinations and numerous psychological tests have failed to reveal forms of mental illness that could, conceivably, explain the abduction phenomenon (Mack 1995; Bloecher, Clamar, and Hopkins 1985; Parnell and Sprinkle 1990; Rodeghier, Goodpastor, and Blatterbauer 1991; Zimmer 1984; Spanos, Cross, Dickson, and DeBreuil 1993).

Furthermore, there is much more involved in the complex narratives of abduction experiences than human trauma per se.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems." Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts

Our brains have decided that feeling tense, which is the appropriate response to being tense, is too unpleasant to bear and is not as socially acceptable as having something "physically" wrong. And so the brain makes a few adjustments in circuitry and instead of looking and acting like a nervous wreck, presto—a bellyache or a backache

a crying grown-up with no visible damage, who knew what that meant?

child psychologists who said "John prefers to play by himself" were dead wrong. I played by myself because I was a failure at playing with others. I was alone as a result of my own limitations, and being alone was one of the bitterest disappointments of my young life.

His words made me wonder what else might be prewired in my brain. Did we have multiple personalities all wired up and ready to use, just as "emotional vision" was always latent in my mind, waiting for activation?

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.