Quotes About Psychology

I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.

People deserve to have their experiences understood in a genuine bio-psycho-social approach. All too often, this is ignored in favor of what is a very reductionist, bio-medical, model.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

No man is a devil in his own mind.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.