Quotes About Psychology

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Bad dreams are a heavy weight to carry.

Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

Parim viis hirmu peletamiseks on hirmu tekitamine.

That an action would be cowardly is not often found by an agent to be a consideration in its favor, but it could be, and in a counterethical way, ministering to a masochism of shame.

except unlike you I don't have any disturbing psychological problems, Dom that's because you haven't dug deep enough to find them

Gail Delaney's Living Your Dreams, Ann Faraday's The Dream Game, and Patricia Garfield's Creative Dreaming. Jung's

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.

Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.

Man himself is so buffeted by shifts of thought and mood, not knowing from one day to the next what he truly feels, that a shifting earth is well-nigh the last straw.

In his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi refers to flow as the time when you become lost in your actions, whether climbing a mountain peak, painting or playing soccer.

Do you think that, by nature, human beings are forgiving?" "I think that, by nature, human beings are self-protective," said Hanratty. "If it is in their interest to be forgiving, then they are. If not, then they are vengeful. I am fairly certain that being forgiving is not an innate virtue.

In my more depressed moments, I believe my cats suffer from Stockholm syndrome. You know, where the hostage falls in love with the captor, as an adaptive mechanism.

Much depends, of course, on the nature of the male-female relationship in the society. The psychological mechanism behind the assertion that rebirth takes place in initiation may in many cases be very simple: men's desire to detract from the importance of childbearing or to cancel their own obligations to women as the source of life.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

Some types of child abuse, notably sexual abuse, lead to the traumatized individual to fuse sexualization with affection, such that any positive relationship has strong sexual overtones.

The truth is, few people put up with emotional abuse as an adult unless they were abused as a child. And nearly every person who becomes emotionally abusive has a history of such abuse in childhood.

Unfortunately, you may have lost touch with this inner sense because of the way you were raised and by the messages you received to the contrary.

Kendini de seviyordu... Kendini de öldürmesi gerekiyordu...

Any dog owner knows that Pavlov's dog wouldn't have salivated when he heard the bell ring. He would have learned to ring the bell when he was hungry.

agrypnia excitata,

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

I think religion is a neurological disorder.