Quotes About Psychology

Illusion is a false perception but delusion is a fixed false belief.

I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

Monsters are not born they are made.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

No matter how much you may want to think of Holdém as a card game played by people, in many respects it is even more valid to think of it as a game about people that happens to be played with cards.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

people often act in a way that provokes precisely the reactions they are expecting. These

In Lacan's view, it is not just dreams but conscious subjective experience in general that is organized into distracting little stories, and it is the folly of ego psychology and object relations theories to have bought into the disguises offered by secondary elaboration, to have taken the illusory stories as real, rather than covers for an underlying sense of loss, absence, castration.

developmental theorists envision a mind rent by vertical splits between different self-states that have not been integrated with one another.

That's when my analysis began. That's when Marion began what Carl Jung would call the "night sea journey." That's when Marion began pointing her sails into the wind of the unconscious, and made the journey into the parts of herself that had been exiled to the basement and the attic of her body and soul. With the help of her analyst, she made the irrevocable decision to accept whatever she found there.

After termination with her analyst in London, Marion would henceforth let her life be guided by an ongoing analysis of her own dream world. "Once we know what the dream world is," she writes, "to be without it is to be rudderless. The dream continually corrects our waking course." Marion, like Jung, came to believe that dreams are the path—circular and meandering as it is—to a knowledge of the exiled self.

The first man stepped up to the open door. All the men had been ordered to look out at the horizon, not straight down, for obvious psychological reasons.

Robert Heinlein once put it . . . Man is a rationalizing animal not a rational one.

Richard Lewontin comments . . . To be convinced that all behavior on the part of others, without distinction, is hostile, is a form of mental illness.57

human beings are not single egos but are instead composed of multiple ego states. multiple personality disorder is only a pathological expression of a general condition

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

This brings us to another class of lucid dream induction methods: falling asleep consciously. The second of the two main ways in which people become lucid is by briefly awakening from REM sleep and then returning right back to REM sleep without losing consciousness

lucid dreams occur "almost exclusively" during the early morning hours.

Escaping from a nightmare by awakening only suppresses your conscious awareness of the anxiety-provoking imagery.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

What is gamesmanship? Most difficult of questions to answer briefly. "The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating"—that is my personal "working definition."