Quotes About Psychology

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

In a matter of weeks I developed gray hair on the lower half of the sides of my head. In my culture, people refer to this phenomenon as the extreme result of depression.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.

'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.

I have studied psychology and practised as well, that helps me read auras, minds and silence too at times.

I have to put my father over because he really taught me a lot, especially when it comes to out-of-the-ring psychology and how to react when you're approached by fans after a show or in the airport. It might sound silly, but a lot of those things come into play when you're playing a character.

People are determined to play well against me because they don't want to look silly and lose 6-0. But then, when I'm playing my best, it's weird. Their heads drop and it's like they're suddenly frightened.

There are a lot of people across the country, for as silly as this sounds, who obsess about hair loss.

I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.

Much psychology is like the Bible—it can provide support for almost any conceivable view.

The term 'love' was defined in an authoritative dictionary of psychology as 'a form of mental illness not yet recognised in the standard diagnostic manuals'.

Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don't always recognize and can't always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.

Indeed, says psychologist Dan Stern of the University of Geneva, the brain is so relational that our nervous system is actually "constructed to be captured by the nervous systems of others, so that we can experience others as if from within their skin, as well as from within our own.

For humans," says psychologist Ed Tronick of the University of Massachusetts, "the maintenance of [emotional balance] is a dyadic collaborative process." In other words, we are designed to deal with emotion in concert with another person—not by ourselves.

The results of EFT, as measured in a multitude of studies, have been astoundingly positive—better, in fact, than the outcomes of any other therapy that has been offered.

In a group of studies Mikulincer showed that when we feel safely connected to others we understand ourselves better and like ourselves more.

But we are now starting to realize that traumatic stress is almost as common as depression. More than 12 percent of U.S. women in a recent large survey reported having significant post-traumatic stress at some point in their lives.

The kids who can calm themselves usually have warmer, more responsive mothers, while the moms of the angry kids are unpredictable in their behavior, and the moms of the detached kids are colder and dismissive.