Quotes About Psychology

It is the nature of trauma that, when left untreated, it deepens over time.

From Carl Jung: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate." —

Christopher Bollas, writes: "There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.

The constitutional disease from which I suffer," wrote the philosopher and psychologist William James, "is what the Germans call Zerrissenheit, or torn-to-pieces-hood. The days are broken in pure zig-zag and interruption.

The nature of trauma is that you have no recollection of it as a story.

The nature of trauma," van der Kolk had said, "is that you have no recollection of it as a story. The nature of traumatic experience is that the brain doesn't allow a story to be created.

The psychoanalyst who coined it, Christopher Bollas, writes: "There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.

A psychoanalytic phrase—"unthought known"—became my instrument of illumination as I poked and prodded at my history with my parents. The psychoanalyst who coined it, Christopher

Yet, as should become obvious, genocidal events have been common enough to suggest that they cannot be explained as some kind of deviant behavior. On the contrary, given the right circumstances, normal human beings are all too ready to kill by category.

The important point to understand here is that it is unnecessary, and even misleading, to think of those who engage in large-scale killing of civilians as somehow abnormal. Given the right circumstances, it is not too difficult to turn a significant proportion of humans into mass murderers. The disgust one may feel, the identification with the victims, the sense of unfairness can all be overcome and have routinely been overcome with training and experience.

Carol Dweck, the psychologist who studies motivation, likes to say that all the world's parenting advice can be distilled to two simple rules: pay attention to what your children are fascinated by, and praise them for their effort.

We transmit and catch moods from each other in what amounts to a subterranean economy of the psyche in which some encounters are toxic, some nourishing.

The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.

Emotional resilience comes down to how quickly we recover from upsets. People who are highly resilient—who bounce back right away—can have as much as thirty times more activation in the left prefrontal area than those who are less resilient.

the ability to monitor feelings from moment to moment is crucial to psychological insight and self-understanding. An

Albert Bandura, a Stanford psychologist who has done much of the research on self-efficacy, sums it up well: "People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is a huge variability in how you perform. People who have a sense of self-efficacy bounce back from failures; they approach things in terms of how to handle them rather than worrying about what can go wrong."24

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

the workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence.

Some time is needed to grasp the psychological and moral dimensions of a situation. The more distracted we are, the less we can cultivate the subtler forms of empathy and compassion.

Hay muchos estudios que corroboran la persistencia de la agresividad infantil en chicos como Jimmy.11 Como ya hemos visto en otro lugar, los padres de los niños agresivos suelen alternar la indiferencia con los castigos duros y arbitrarios, una pauta que, comprensiblemente, fomenta la paranoia y la agresividad.

el descontrol emocional obstaculiza la labor del intelecto

La capacidad emocional, pues, no constituye un dato inmutable puesto que, con el aprendizaje adecuado, puede modificarse.

En resumen, pues, el reaprendizaje emocional –una tarea que, ciertamente, no concluye nunca– puede remodelar hasta los hábitos emocionales más profundamente arraigados de nuestra infancia.

A mais antiga raiz de nossa vida emocional está no sentido do olfato, ou, mais precisamente, no lobo olfativo, células que absorvem e analisam o cheiro.