Quotes About Psychology

Una mentira repetida mil veces se convierte en una verdad

Reverend Harper: Have you ever tried to persuade him that he wasn't Teddy Roosevelt? Abby Brewster: Oh, no. Martha Brewster: Oh, he's so happy being Teddy Roosevelt. Abby Brewster: Oh... Do you remember, Martha, once, a long time ago, we thought if he'd be George Washington, it might be a change for him, and we suggested it. Martha Brewster: And do you know what happened? He just stayed under his bed for days and wouldn't be anybody.

Fear and other emotions are based on assumptions, presuppositions, and expectations; they are constructed in the brain from nonemotional ingredients.

It should be noted that psychological processes and learning experiences are, in the end, also biological in nature, because they are products of the brain and as such are also subject to genetic influences and the influence of gene-environment interactions, or what is called epigenetics.

For example, the easiest way to identify which emotion you are feeling is to label it verbally as fear, anger, love, or disgust. Some even insist that you don't really know what you are feeling until you have labeled it.

The ease with which one is capable of deluding oneself in this field is legendary.

When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.

Fear is, as Freud would say, nothing but a signal--the more effective the more acute and unpleasant it is.

We are gods with anuses.

the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

Few young men know the Oedipal torment of growing up with an insanely hot, perpetually single mom.

Christopher Bache has been a professor of religious studies at Youngstown State University for thirty years and more recently adjunct professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was director of transformative learning at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. His teaching focuses on Eastern religions, psychology of religion, and transpersonal psychology. Bache is the author of three books.

Emotions are amorphous and uncontrollable.

The shift from shame to guilt is crucial. Shame is a state of of self-absorption, while guilt is an emphatic, relational response, inspired by the hurt you have caused another.

Karma becomes most relevant if we simply examine it as a psychology of habit. Karma is about beginning to see the general script we act from, the strategies we employ when confronted with familiar obstacles along our commute. This

Inhabiting a human nervous system is kind of like living in a house where the doorbell and the burglar alarm make exactly the same sound. Because

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?

Many think that the only way to change your behavior is to first change your feelings.

Mourning Becomes Electra

the lies we want to believe tell us something about ourselves.

Seligman proposed not so much a new psychological approach as a new positive attitude that moved basic and applied psychology away from stagnation and focused scholars on the unexploited market target of healthy, normal people.

Different fields notwithstanding, since their early alliance positive psychologists and happiness economists have shared the conviction that happiness was not an ill-defined or speculative construct with more than fifty shades of historical and philosophical grey, but an objective, universal concept that can be unbiasedly and accurately measured.

L]et them be their own Rorschach tests[.]

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.