Quotes About Psychology

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

The placebo cures 30% of patients - no matter what they have.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.

A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile you'll... be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expression of a given mental mood, any given mood, then that mental mood itself will follow.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

Those modern analysts, they charge so much! In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.

I believe that this neglected, wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

Free man is by necessity insecure; thinking man is by necessity uncertain.

Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes and wanes.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and of humanity.