Quotes About Psychology

You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people.

What kind of woman gets slaughtered by her own son?

Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.

She talked to me because we had the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. I

Was I good at caring for Amma because of kindness? Or did I like caring for Amma because I have Adora's sickness?

I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts.

I'd found it strange and kind of cute, Amy's guilty pleasures, those cheesy true-crime books I'd discovered here and there around our house. I thought maybe she was loosening up, allowing herself some beach reading. Nope. She was just studying.

Mom, Dad, Baby, they were three advanced people with three advanced degrees in psychology—they thought more before nine A.M. than most people thought all month.

I was sometimes as guilty of playing the figure-me-out game as Amy was.

As a child, I was constantly being sent on playdates with other kids—the shrinks insisted I interact with cohorts. That's what my meeting with Lyle was like: those first loose, horrible ten minutes, when the grown-ups have left, and neither kid knows what the other one wants, so you stand there, near the TV they've told you to keep off, fiddling with the antenna.

All the stuff I don't like about myself has been pushed to the back of my brain

Gillian Flynn

I don't even want to ask," he said. "You two are the most fucked-up people I have ever met, and I specialize in fucked-up people.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

There is no time in the limbic system. Because of this our past often takes us over without warning and we relive it in ways that can be very troublesome. The

those who can't. Attachment and vulnerability—these two great themes of human existence—go hand in hand.

People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

You know, Pyle, women don't want virgins. I'm not sure we do, unless we are a pathological type.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces.

neuroanatomist

Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it...

Carl Jung's admonition: If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you.

God is merely a part of the human brain, an evolutionary coping mechanism that developed to make bearable our awareness of our own deaths. When