Quotes About Psychology

Shower while there were two dead bodies in the bathtub, and he was sane. He drilled holes in the heads of living people to make them his unresisting companions, and he was sane. He ate a bicep which he fried in a skillet, tenderised and sprinkled with sauce, and he was sane. For hours he lay with corpses, hugging them, cherishing them, and he was sane. He kept eleven assorted heads and skulls, and two complete skeletons, for eventual use in a home-made temple, and he was sane.

high-reactive infants matured into more inhibited, introverted teenagers.

Se q hay un motivo para todo. Tal vez en el momento en q se produce un hecho no contamos con la penetración psicológica ni la previsión necesarias para comprender las razones, pero con el tiempo y paciencia saldrán a la luz

memory is what the brain does, how it composes us and allows our past to help determine our future. In no small part memory makes us who we are

In Sandy's case, milk, once associated with nurturing and nutrition, now became the stuff that spilled from her throat, that her mother "refused" as she lay dead. Silverware was now no longer something used to eat your food, but rather something that killed and maimed and horrified. And doorbells—well, that was what had started the whole thing: the ringing of the doorbell had announced the arrival of the killer.

As one family therapist famously put it, we tend to prefer the "certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty.

how changes in our emotional state can affect how we learn.

Childhood experiences literally impact the biology of the brain.

Your own experiences and the echoes of your ancestors' experiences influence the way you think, feel, and behave.

we feel better with the certainty of misery than the misery of uncertainty

evocative cues"—basically any sensory input, like a sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch—can activate a traumatic memory.

las alteraciones en los sistemas de serotonina, norepinefrina y dopamina están implicadas en conductas antisociales, violentas y agresivas.

Dr. Perry: That vibration, as you describe it, equates to the emotional tone of the environment.

where a patient projects his feelings about his parents into other relationships, particularly the one he has with his therapist—be explained by examining the function of the brain?

No one knows what a moderate dose of revisiting a trauma memory is better than the actual traumatized person.

ultimately altered their ability to respond properly to stress for a lifetime.

is even more difficult to understand and take into account how early childhood trauma can express underlying genetic vulnerabilities.

The mind wants to see what we believe, so it clings to things that support those beliefs—that worldview—and ignores things that don't. But trauma shatters this inner landscape. Your worldviews are broken to pieces.

Is fear transmissible from generation to generation? Can the fearfulness of a parent be transmitted to the child? -the answer is an empathic yes.

And since the brain is the part of us that allows us to think, feel, and act, whenever I'm trying to understand someone, I wonder about that person's brain. Why did they do that? What would make them act that way? Something happened that influenced how their brain works.

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para la evaluación clínica resulta fundamental saber que, cuanta más ansiedad siente una persona, más difícil le resulta recordar y describir sus sentimientos, pensamientos e historia con exactitud.

Children, especially, are very contagious to the emotions of the people around them. Think of you and your grandmother in the story you just shared. You felt fear. Her fear was passed to you—you "caught" her fear and carried it into your generation.

A lifelong set of beliefs and behaviors can emerge when trauma is experienced at a young age. In one of the most serious manifestations, early sexual abuse can poison intimacy, even if the person has no actual recollection of specific instances of abuse.