Quotes About Psychology

In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.

My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

It's never a good thing when an opponent has a solid read on you pre-flop.

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.

It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.

Sometimes you have to work through some things, and the mental side of kicking is definitely there.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

There is no cure for narcissistic personality disorder. If you have a relationship with someone who has it, there will be a certain level of pain built into it. I don't think you can have a close, loving relationship with a narcissist, and I don't think it's possible to be a true narcissist and be a good mother.

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

Even if love were considered a mental illness, that would not prevent it from being a pleasant one.

Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love.

People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.

It's only when a man doesn't feel that he's a man that he has to be a god.

Where does violence go, if not directly back into our blood and bones?

When my mother went to university to become a therapist she learned that suffering, even though it may have happened a long time ago, is something that is passed from one generation to the next to the next, like flexibility or grace or dyslexia.

The stories we tell yourselves long enough become our truths