Quotes About Psychology

I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

If someone loves you, they can fall out of love with you but they're probably going to keep fearing you. That's where we are with [Donald] Trump.

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."

I think love is one that can definitely make you go crazy, and it's almost like love can induce mental illness in a lot of people, or bring it out worse. It makes people make crazy decisions.

I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

You said love, I say chemical imbalance.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.

I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.

I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone else's subconscious.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.

I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

After the depression, after the war, Freudian psychology became much more than a science of human behavior, a therapy for the suffering. It became an all-embracing American ideology, a new religion.

The brain takes a long time to form completely. A teenager's brain is only about 80 percent finished (which may not come as a great surprise to the parents of teenagers

Capgras syndrome is a condition in which sufferers become convinced that those they know well are imposters. In Klüver-Bucy syndrome the victim develops urges to eat and fornicate indiscriminately (to the understandable dismay of loved ones).46 Perhaps the most bizarre of all is Cotard delusion, in which the sufferer believes he is dead and cannot be convinced otherwise.47

The amygdala grows particularly lively when we are asleep, and thus may account for why our dreams are so often disturbing. Your nightmares may simply be the amygdalae unburdening themselves.*2