Quotes About Psychology

This is how your mind plays game with you. If it wants you to do something, it will find a hundred reasons to justify it.

When the heart breaks, the part of the brain that stores data on past dates works perfectly.

But the point is that one of television's greatest contributions is that it brought murder back into the home where it belongs. Seeing a murder on television can be good therapy. It can help work off one's antagonism. And, if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

The toughest battle is Mind.

[M]y theory... there was a crack in Pansay's head and a little bit of the Dark World came through and pressed him to death.

I've found it's 80 percent psychology and 20 percent skills.

Oh the brain, the brain!... Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called Man! Oh the little that unhinges it: poor creatures that we are!

Criminal Minds, Bad Moon on the Rise: "It is the very error of the moon; she comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad."

The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive.

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

Feelings must be dealt with before behavior can be improved.

She discovered she had disowned her anger so totally that when she was deeply irritated by her husband, she experienced not anger but overwhelming desire to go to sleep. When she learned her drowsiness was a substitute for natural aggression, she began to search for the anger concealed by her overwhelming fatigue. As soon as she became aware of her anger voice and learned what it wanted, the drowsiness disappeared.

In an attempt to eradicate these rejected selves, we make them much stronger by driving them into the unconscious where they are free to operate beyond our control.

Instead, it is a group of subpersonalities, watched over by the protector/controller, that determines our feelings and behavior. Thus, we always have a vague fear that if the other person really knew what we were like, he or she would abandon us (even though we ourselves do not know what this mysterious "real" person is actually like).

Your Aware Ego will not remain with you at all times because it disappears each time your primary selves take over.

When most people use the word "I," they are in fact referring to their protector/controller.

one of the primary issues in the evolution of consciousness is the discovery of these subpersonalities and how they operate within us.

Unfortunately, having read about disowned selves, you cannot bask in the sunshine of moral superiority for too long.

Galef and Tomasello come from a null-hypothesis-testing, experimental psychology background. The null hypothesis is something like "chimpanzees do not possess culture," with culture being defined by something like "traditional behavior transmitted by imitation or teaching." They could not show in their own or others' experimental studies that captive chimpanzees could imitate or teach, so did not reject the null hypothesis. No culture.

People who suffered nightmares frequently were three times more likely to commit suicide, and that was regardless of whether they were clinically depressed or suffering from PTSD.