Quotes About Psychology

Každý sen je masochistní.

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves, and to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.

Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly has issues

Oh, good. You're starting to talk about yourself in the third person. That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.

You have to give everyone ugly motives for everything they do, because ugly motives are all you understand.

Feeling this way was a particular kind of horror, having the emotions without the memories.

Thus, melancholia arises when there is failure to recognize the traumatic nature of the wound causing pain.

O sentimento de culpa é algo de terrível que nos aflige em todos os momentos em que estamos acordados e nos persegue durante os sonhos.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Anger is not a feeling; it's a defence. When you can't acknowledge your true feelings because they're too excruciating, you defend against them with anger.

Whatever role we are loved for in our family, we will continue to enact it, despite the toll it takes.

psychological technique called reframing: taking a concept and relabelling it so as to alter its meaning.

Making psychological changes also provokes anxiety. It's very hard to break a habit, especially when you've adapted yourself to a particular pattern that, however maladaptive, has kept you alive. The unconscious is powerful, and it will fight to the death to keep an old pattern in place.

every time she felt angry she should remember that anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

anger is a defence, not a feeling, and to analyze what feeling the anger was covering.

psychology is like archaeology. As you dig down to uncover each layer and carefully dust off the artifacts that emerge, you eventually find a whole buried world that seems stranger than fiction.

I explained that dreams have to present pictures, concrete images of emotional content. Just as mythology explains the human psyche through its images—its universal archetypes—dreams do the same thing on an individual level. They provide the dreamer with pictures of that individual's unconscious mind.

Danny used one of the most powerful defences known in psychology: depersonalization. He cut off all his feelings. It was the perfect armour. The only problem with his perfect weapon was that he could barely attach to anyone, or feel life's pleasures. As he said at the beginning of our work together, "I don't need joy." He was right, in a way. Is it better to feel or to maintain your sanity? For many years, he chose the latter.

In the long run, shame always outlives physical pain. "Anyone who thinks of a shameful memory will experience it at least as vividly as when they had the original experience,

You were suffering depersonalization, which is when you feel divorced from your own personal self. You don't feel your own bodily sensations or emotions. The world seems hazy, and your connection with yourself breaks down." "I have that a lot. What causes it?" "A traumatic childhood, usually in the early stages of differentiation of self, combined with high anxiety levels.

Danny used one of the most powerful defences known in psychology: depersonalization. He cut off all his feelings. It was the perfect armour. The only problem with his perfect weapon was that he could barely attach to anyone, or feel life's pleasures. As he said at the beginning of our work together, "I don't need joy." He was right, in a way. Is it better to feel or to maintain your sanity?

The ego—one's sense of self—is an abstract concept; it's hard to define it concretely. Picture it as a house built brick by brick. It protects you from the stresses of the outside world, providing a metaphorical home to shelter in—a safe place.

Freud says shame makes you feel you won't be loved. Shame is much more pernicious than guilt. While guilt is a painful feeling about your actions, shame is much more psychologically destructive because it's a bad feeling about yourself as a person.