Quotes About Psychology

Women are programmed to think they're the only screw-up in the universe and men are programmed to think they're the smartest creatures in the universe.

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy.

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

Any man who yields habitually to melancholia may expect his brain, sooner or later, to degenerate from its original strength, and relax the toughness and compactness of its fibre. Absolute dementia may not be the result for some years, but there will be occasional and painful indications of the end for a long space before it arrives. The indications, as a rule, will assume the form of visions and dreams and wild imaginings of various sorts. Now do you understand me?

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

Nor does this understanding require a prolonged grounding in the not yet established laws of psychology.

Nor does this understanding require a prolonged grounding in the not yet established laws of psychology. Following the moves made by a chess-player is not doing anything remotely resembling problematic psychological diagnosis.

In truth, Freud sees nothing and understands nothing.

Com a psicologização do parecer abre-se o prazer narcísico de se metamorfosear aos olhos dos outros e de si mesmo, de "mudar de pele", de se tornar e de se sentir como uma outra, mudando de toalete.

De fato, o marketing político corresponde à instalação das sociedades democráticas na era do consumo moda: foram os valores inerentes à sua ordem, o hedonismo, o lazer, o jogo, a personalidade, o psicologismo, a cordialidade, a simplicidade, o humor, que impulsionaram a reestruturação das declarações políticas.

A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

When you hate yourself enough, there is a sharp tinge of satisfaction in unhappiness.

What is the line between the living female body and the dysfunctional portrait that has been drawn of it in literature and psychology and medicine?

John Weakland, uno de los maestros de la Escuela de Palo Alto, afirma que el error que cometen con más frecuencia los seres humanos, y la raíz además de muchos problemas, es infravalorar o, por el contrario, sobrevalorar a los interlocutores y a sí mismos.

Giorgio Nardone

hipnótica, «las sugestiones indirectas funcionan mejor que las directas».

tácticas fundamentales y estratagemas (Cialdini, 1984, Watzlawick, 22012) que

atados por vínculos invisibles a nuestro miedo, somos, al mismo tiempo, marionetas y titiriteros, víctimas de nuestras expectativas».

El problema es que se puede diagnosticar un ataque de pánico muy a la ligera, con el consiguiente riesgo de llamar pánico a una crisis histérica, o a la ansiedad generalizada, o a una fase de angustia profunda o, peor aún, a una verdadera patología orgánica, con consecuencias a veces realmente funestas.

Sometimes I wonder if it does exist such a thing called personality.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

W]e are basically more similar to our patients than we are different from them. The psychological mechanisms in pathological states are merely extensions of principles involved in normal developmental functioning. Doctor and patient are both human beings. [...] [C]ountertransference in the psychiatrist and transference in the patient are essentially identical processes - each unconsciously experiences the other as someone from the past.

I know this might be breaking news to Nicholas Kristof, but guns being 'more lethal than anything else you have around' is sort of the whole point. The issue should not really be the lethality of the gun, but the but the psychology of the person holding it.

threat or actuality of government surveillance may psychologically inhibit freedom of speech.