Quotes About Psychology

La sugestión, en efecto, no puede producir nada que no se halle ya entre los contenidos de la consciencia o que no haya sido introducido en ella.

Die rührende, im Grunde so kindliche Elternliebe ist nichts anderes als der wiedergeborene Narzißmus der Eltern, der in seiner Umwandlung zur Objektliebe sein einstiges Wesen unverkennbar offenbart.

The aggressive impulse flows mainly from the destructive instinct; and we have always believed that in a neurosis it is against the demands of the libido and not against those of any other instinct that the ego is defending itself.

much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. With a mental life that has been restored to health, you will be better armed against that unhappiness.

getting clear about the right categories with which to understand human motivation, is an important practical task.

Mrs Pargeter reflected, not for the first time, that there is within the human psyche an infinite yearning for humiliation.

The denial of death is self-hatred.

You don't have to be guilty of anything in order to feel guilt

Humans are just so damn complicated.

psychoanalysts in particular define man as a human being and woman as a female: every time she acts like a human being, the woman is said to be imitating the male.

Basta!' Seguí. Quería que se fuera; verdaderamente lo quería, era sincera. Sincera porque no creí que lo hiciera. Era como un espantoso psicodrama en el que uno juega a la verdad.

Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.

Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.

When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychology. All those poor devils he'll hide away in institutions, and just bring out the lively young human slaughter cattle in uniforms.

An actor who believes that he really is King Lear is emotionally ill.

Do not adjust the controls on your television set. The creeped-out feeling you are experiencing is all in your mind.

Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho.

Commit cruelty on a person long enough and the mind begins to go.

Niin monet miehet ovat naineet unissaan äitiään.

The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair.

Anxiety can just as well express itself by muteness as by a scream.

In a sense, all murderers are lunatics. Killing is a not a sane reaction to the circumstances of life.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.