Quotes About Psychology

What do we need all that for? "If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without a Cause is such a picture.

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As the child gets older, the discrepancy between his chronological age and the level of his psychological functioning widens. He develops a "borderline personality disorder" which becomes progressively more entrenched over time as the individual encounters and struggles with the challenges of each life phase.

The mother's unavailability to supply the emotional fuel dampened or thwarted the child's desire to individuate and become his real self,

Personal meaning must be created, not accepted, and the process of creating it requires testing and experimentation. A false self will neither test nor experiment; it is a defense against experimenting.

Witzelsucht, in which patients compulsively share dreadful puns, facetious jokes, and socially inappropriate wisecracks.

The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed.

The most potent stimulus of aggression and violence, and the one that is most reliable in eliciting this response, is not frustration per-se (as the "frustration-aggression" hypothesis had claimed), but rather, insult and humiliation. In other words, the most effective way, and often the only way, to provoke someone to become violent is to insult him.

Violence occurs when people see no means of undoing or preventing their own humiliation except by humiliating others; indeed, that is the underlying purpose of inflicting violence on others.

Violence, from the point of view of those who engage in it, does not intensify shame, it diminishes it and even reverses it into its opposite, namely, self-respect, and respect from others, which is why the most violent people boast for their violence rather than apologizing for it.

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

Self esteem and depression go hand in hand. They are directly proportionate to each other and if there is variation in one then there will be a variation in the other one as well.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.

From ancient theology to contemporary psychology, our words shape our story and this story becomes the framework for our behaviors; and our behaviors determine the way we lead our life and the way we run our organizations.

If you think of physical conditioning, technical understanding and tactical appreciation as forming three legs,' Wayne Smith tells writer Gregor Paul, 'the stool isn't balanced unless you have psychological strength as well.

persistence is likely linked to high dopamine, so the higher the dopamine levels, the more you are likely to soldier on through adversity to achieve a particular goal.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

In counseling, we don't simply help people to change one thought; we help people to understand the pattern of their thinking – their mindsets.