Quotes About Psychology

I read about human psychology, practise balance, and accept that everything and everyone in our lives is transient. One day, people will criticise you, and the next day, they will praise you.

Coming from the music business and seeing the transition from artists to fans, fans to consumers, it's really about understanding the psychology of why people want to associate with your brand.

'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.

I'm not the kind of actor that can go completely cold into an emotional scene. I have to transport myself emotionally by whatever means possible, and that basically means you carry the situation with you all week, all episode or all day beforehand.

Where is the borderland between memory and hallucination?

Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul

The singularity of the term "psychology" should not mislead one into thinking that such a discipline was ever successfully founded. Or that there is an essence to "psychology" that could encompass the various definitions, methodologies, practices, world-views, and institutions that have used this designation.

Alas, the human mind is a perverse, uncontrollable organ,

No attack is ever really an attack on the victim. It's the perpetrator attacking an aspect of himself that he loathes. He or she.

No attack is ever really an attack on the victim. Its the perpetrator attacking an aspect of himself that he loathes. He or she. Try telling that to the victim, I thought.

Some of us are killers. It's in our blood... that ability. It doesn't mean we walk around killing withour conscience, but we're just... better equipped to do it. Some people don't have it in them, but we do. You'll feel a lot better once you accept that.

anger is always fear in disguise

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Experiences of BPM II are best characterized by the triad: fear of death, fear of never coming back, and fear of going crazy.

Freud (1921), without referring to the general systems implications of his assertion, spelled out this mechanism clearly: ". . . the individual gives up his ego ideal and substitutes for it the group ideal embodied in the leader" (page 78, Group Psychology).

We have evidence that autistic people's mirror mechanism is impaired.

the taller you are, the more selfish you are.

From the beginning of time man has undoubtedly more often been cured of his ailments by suggestion than by any other means, no matter how reluctant medical practitioners are to admit the fact.

Whenever remarkable cures have taken place, we may be pretty sure that suggestion has been at work.

History extols, not the beginner but the completer. She puts the victor on a pedestal, while leaving the mere combatant in obscurity. Thus has it been with Mesmer, the first of the new psychologists, whose ungrateful task it was to be born before his time.

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

by means of what we now call hypnosis an individual could exercise an influence for better or worse upon the mental condition of his neighbor.