Quotes About Psychology

Attributing dissent to personality disorders is hardly an American invention. Soviet dissidents were routinely institutionalized in psychological hospitals, and Chinese dissidents are still often forcibly treated for mental illness.

What was it Freud once said? All depression is caused by the loss of someone's love.

I've learned enough about human nature to know that behind anger or bitterness or hurt there's always a wound, or fear, or frustration.

Self-awareness, the basic sense of self, and implicit memory (discussed below). To a great degree, self-esteem is imprinted as a felt sense in the right brain by the first three years, and stored implicitly below conscious awareness (Wilkinson 2010). Such imprints are usually not responsive to logic or words.

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.

Since studies show that low self-esteem correlates with both prejudice and violence – that people who have a negative view of themselves also tend to view other people and the world negatively – representatives were interested in introducing self-esteem programs in schools.

Malice lies dormant in all of us and anyone who knows how to exploit it, how to turn it sharply in one direction can hope for an echo.

This was how people were able to do things when they didn't want to - they made themselves feel something else, like anger, more than the fear.

It's Myers-Briggs . . . the MBTI, Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator.

Teasing is a disguised form of shaming.

Happiness often makes us rather cruel.

I think a civilization is created out of some kind of sublimation of violence. When the violence gets too sublimated, you get a sick civilization.

It seems a pity that Psychology should have destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. It is a natural enough catastrophe; for the very act of changing it from a matter of common sense to a matter of scientific enquiry, labelled and separated as a science, involves a change which nobody has adequately noted.

Dreams are free therapy. Consult your inner Freud.

Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

The woman factor explains many things of men.

By taking this stand, Burckhardt emerged in most refreshing contrast with his contemporaries and many of his successors. For what he developed was nothing short of a psychology of historiography. The historian is to observe, contemplate, and enjoy the incredibly glorious richness of the human experience. He is to look for human greatness and creativity everywhere, even in periods that might seem alien and distant from him.

I think you can only make statements like 'She was pathological' if you are absolutely sure of your own sanity, which I consider a morally unacceptable position.

I believe it's called 'irrational reasoning.' It's what happens to people when they're scared

Fear can be used in all sorts of ways to control people, and that's what he's done." They took a few

But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.

To be effective, propaganda must constantly short-circuit all thought and decision. It must operate on the individual at the level of the unconscious. He must not know that he is being shaped by outside forces...but some central core in him must be reached in order to release the mechanism in the unconscious which will provide the appropriate - and expected - action.