Quotes About Psychology

Psychology—that was one thing I knew. You don't try to scare people in broad daylight. You wait. Because the darkness squeezes you inside yourself, you get cut off from the outside world, the imagination takes over. That's basic psychology. I'd pulled enough night guard to know how the fear factor gets multiplied as you sit there hour after hour, nobody to talk to, nothing to do but stare into the big black hole at the center of your own sorry soul

Old Scully, who according to Jennifer, hadn't the imagination to think the worst. Something she said once, as though neurosis was an artform.

Uncertainties are often useful in paralyzing an opponent's plans and actions

Thrawn's unique ability to read a species' deepest psychological core by studying its artwork was one of his greatest strengths, enabling him to anticipate his opponents' moves right down to their likely battlefield tactics. New allies seeing it demonstrated for first time inevitably reacted with surprise, awe, or disbelief.

In short, every child develops in ways that best allow them to compensate for weakness; "a thousand talents and capabilities arise from our feelings of inadequacy," Adler noted.

Neo-Freudian Karen Horney believed that childhood experiences resulted in our creation of a self that "moved toward people" or "moved away from people." These tendencies were a sort of mask that could develop into neurosis if we were not willing to move beyond them. Underneath was what she called a "wholehearted," or real, person.

Unlike other animals we are aware of our instincts, and as a result may attempt to shape or control them.

This idea originated with psychologist Carl Rogers (see p 238), who taught that nonjudgmental listening and acceptance of another person's feelings create rapport. Applied

While a complex may make someone more timid or withdrawn, it could equally produce the need to compensate for that in overachievement. This is the "pathological power drive," expressed at the expense of other people and society generally. Adler identified Napoleon, a small man making a big impact on the world, as a classic case of an inferiority complex in action.

Her ego and id had fully lost the battle with her superego, and this was the only way they could be expressed.

people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.

The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

How would we fare psychologically if the walls of slaughterhouses were made of glass?

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

When you blow up a major life situation, as I did on two fronts before leaving Richmond, the explosion can leave a hole in your psyche. Nature abhors a vacuum, however, and over time the crater is almost certain to fill in with new wisdom -- or fresh folly. Sometimes it can be a challenge to tell the difference.

Who knows what causes the human brain to split its britches. It would seem that the brain hangs so many curtains between itself and the true universe that eventually light can no longer reach it, and it molds and rots and festers in the dark.

on Sundays because of an archetypal psychological response to menstruation.

Your opinions are your symptoms.

Dotty (off): HELP! ... Archie: It's all right—just exhibitionism: what we psychiatrists call 'a cry for help'. Bones: But it was a cry for help. Archie: Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. All exhibitionism is a crey for help, but a cry for help as such is only exhibitionism.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

The death of self-esteem can occur quickly, easily in children, before their ego has "legs," so to speak.

What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?

Theta waves are associated with drowsy, meditative, or sleeping states. Yet in psychopaths, they occur during normal waking states, even sometimes during states of increased arousal.