Quotes About Psychology

El miedo puede provocar todo tipo de comportamiento inusual

the analyst finds that maintaining silence and a failure to respond to the most provocative and outrageous behavior by a patient is the cleverest way to get to the psychological truth of those actions.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

Por qué resulta tan difícil comprender lo poderosa que es la capacidad de negación que tenemos todos? ¡Nunca queremos creer lo peor!

It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.

I never remember my dreams which suits me fine.

jouska n. a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head-a crisp analysis, a devastating comeback, a cathartic heart-to-heart-which serves as a kind of psychological batting cage that feels far more satisfying than the small-ball strategies of everyday life.

Psychology looks at people from the inside. Economics looks at them from the outside.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

Como dije en el capítulo 7, el intelecto, la voluntad y las emociones son una sola cosa en la naturaleza humana. Ahora podemos ver que estas también son una en nuestra naturaleza pecaminosa.

Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.

Prayer is a ubiquitous practice in nearly all religions, but it is seldom understood. Prayer is not magic, meditation, or positive thinking. It remains a puzzle to science and a paradoxical discipline to psychology.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

A valuation, which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which really do not make much difference . . . since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

Eddie has long joked that the two most useful backgrounds for a real estate broker are psychology and elementary education.

Our psychological being has been severed from our biological selves for so long that we are completely cut off from our true natures.

Our demons, they have a way of becoming self-fulfilling.

All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?

button that third time. Pavlov's

Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.

Was one head dominant, or did they serve different functions?

Anyway, dissociation is a great coping skill. It can keep you going and functional basically forever. The problems hit when it starts to break down, which is essentially as soon as you start to question your own detachment.