Quotes About Psychology

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy.

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an injustice collector and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity.

A little neurosis may be a valuable asset, even though a heavy one may be hard to take.

Analytical psychology and magic comprise in my estimation two halves or aspects of a single technical system.

And when we make choices informed by a depressive state of mind, they're more than likely to keep us stuck in our unhappiness.

Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She'd learned that one at her mother's knee.

Oh, come on. People see ghosts all the time." "That's because people, by and large, are whacked.

Some people just like to kill. Sometimes it's not any more complicated than that." "It should be," Peabody replied

Maybe if they played those poppy, jingling Christmas songs on an endless loop in the tank it would be enough.

Lawyers and shrinks and suspects." "Oh my.

Do you wonder, ever, what makes a person capable of taking a life when there's no threat to his own or another? What makes them end life, and so often, so very often, with real cruelty, even with pleasure.

Freud's warning that what I omit without thinking (i.e. without conscious thought) may be the key to the deepest truth about me?

Jokes have a relation to the unconscious.' 'Jokes may indeed have a relation to the unconscious. But also: sometimes a joke is just a joke.' 'Directed against-' 'Directed against you. Whom else? The man who doesn't laugh. The man who can't take a joke.

The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body.

Primero el cráneo, luego el temperamento: las dos partes más duras del cuerpo.

You cannot understand a man's actions unless you understand his beliefs.

And second, I don't think there's much of a market for your particular brand of psychology. So not true. Butch, you and I just beat the crap out of each other. You started it. And actually, it would be perfect for Spike TV. UFC meets Oprah. God, I'm brilliant. Keep telling yourself that. -Butch and V

Stop it. Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.

Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon?

That's where you come in. I want into that guy's mind, and you need to tell me how to do it. Ad shrugged. Personally, I'd just use a hacksaw, but— There are potential consequences and side effects, Eddie said carefully. Like what? Well, worst case... he could end up like Adrian.

A veces, fingir ser normal era el mejor antídoto contra las cosas raras. El dicho «finge hasta que lo logres» era algo más que simple verborrea psicológica.

Además, la mente era el arma más poderosa que uno tenía para atacar a los demás y para destruirse a sí mismo.

Staring down at the churning crowd from his second-floor office, he watched them through the kind of one-way glass that psychologists used to monitor the interviews of insane people. And this made sense. The men and women below, stimulated and stimulating each other, were not on the normal bandwidth, and that was why they came to his establishment.