Quotes About Psychology

The parts of your brain that generate anxiety are more interested in the fact that there is a plan than in the details of the plan.

It is because we are born human that we are guaranteed a good dose of suffering. And chances are, if you or someone you love is not suffering now, they will be within five years, unless you are freakishly lucky. Rearing kids is hard, work is hard, aging, sickness and death are hard, and Jordan emphasized that doing all that totally on your own, without the benefit of a loving relationship, or wisdom, or the psychological insights of the greatest psychologists, only makes it harder.

Freud had a point. He was, after all, a genius. You can tell that because people still hate him. But there are disadvantages to the detached and somewhat distant approach recommended by Freud. Many of those who seek therapy desire and need a closer, more personal relationship (although that also has its dangers). This is in part why I have opted in my practice for the conversation, instead of the Freudian method—as have most clinical psychologists.

So, I'm communicating, as Freud so rightly stressed, even when silent.

People don't buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don't ever forget that.

Speaking of eye contact, here's an interesting fact: if you don't make eye contact at least 72 percent of the time, people won't trust you. There have been detailed studies on this stuff, and 72 percent is the number. You can look it up online. Anything more, and you risk getting into a stare-off with somebody.

if you don't make eye contact at least 72 percent of the time, people won't trust you. There have been detailed studies on this stuff, and 72 percent is the number. You can look it up online. Anything more, and you risk getting into a stare-off with somebody.

My waking life probably gave my subconscious an inferiority complex.

Recognizing protective behavior is an important stage of exploration. Protections are strategies we use to keep our unconscious fears from consciousness.

You cannot have proper respect for yourself until you know that you're a monster.

He is in possession of his life who is in possession of his story." —Carl Jung

Una vez escuché en un documental dedicado al funcionamiento del cerebro que en ocasiones recordamos para olvidar. Pasamos una y otra vez sobre los surcos del mismo disco para borrarlos. Como si la repetición eliminara la memoria en lugar de preservarla.

If Baudelaire, in hieroglyphics of the soul, had deciphered the return of the age of the sentiment and ideas, Poe, in the field of morbid psychology had more especially investigated the domain of the soul.

If Baudelaire had made out among the hieroglyphics of the soul the critical age of thought and feeling, it was Poe who, in the sphere of morbid psychology, had carried out the closest scrutiny of the will.

La libertad se aprende obedeciendo primero, porque esta obediencia permite construir las herramientas psicológicas de la libertad.

El narciso que se empereza en la contemplación de su propia belleza, o de su propia importancia, o de su propia desdicha, y morosamente la paladea con ayuda de un analista, descansa confortablemente en el diván de su tristeza.

falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.

The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.

Pasiunea e o stare patologic? ce presupune imperfec?iunea unui suflet.

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an instinct, but exactly the opposite: a creation.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Smythies, you recall, considered hallucination to be a normal part of every child's psychological life.

These narrative moves reduce dissonance and help maintain a sense of control and personal unity.

one thing that is often missing from conscious awareness is the reason or motivation for why a particular behavior was produced.