Quotes About Psychology

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all emotions are derivations of five core feelings: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and shame.

Closing your eyes and thinking of emotionally arousing events is simply training for the real thing—spotting the physical signs of your emotions on the fly.

Your personality is a result of your preferences, such as your inclination to introversion or extroversion. However, like IQ, personality can't be used to predict emotional intelligence.

No one seems to realize how much we are driven by FEAR, the essential component of human personality. Everything else - from ambition to love to despair - derives in some way from this single powerful emotion.

transmutación mental" significa el arte de convertir estados, formas y condiciones mentales en otros.

Trauma-triggered anger usually manifests itself in one of three ways: fight, flight, or freeze.

to record the five steps in as much detail as you can, along with whatever thoughts, associations, or memories are triggered by the demon.

Evil in the human psyche comes from a failure to bring together, to reconcile the pieces of our experience. When we embrace all that we are, even the evil, the evil is transformed. — Andrew Bard Schmookler

Have you ever noticed there's no twilight in Africa? [...] It must affect the way the psyche develops. I think it makes people here stronger. No gentle twilight to ease them into the darkness. Maybe it's twilight that makes Westerners so sentimental. They can sit on their porches and watch day recede as night approaches. It gives them time to consider what they're going to lose. It's like dying slowly versus being shot.

Underneath the brainwashing genocidal murderer is a very lonely brainwashing genocidal murderer.

The fundamental attribution error is simply this: human beings tend to falsely attribute the negative behaviors of others to their character (an internal attribution), while they attribute their own negative behaviors to their environment (an external attribution).

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

I remember the fact of extreme, prostrating terror,' he said ... but the inward nature of the emotion now escapes me.

the stigma of severe mental illness leads to prejudice and discrimination. Stigmas are negative and erroneous attitudes about these persons. Unfortunately, stigma's impact on a person's life may be as harmful as the direct effects of the disease. Corrigan, P. W., & Penn, D. L. (1999). Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma. American Psychologist, 54(9), 765–776.

Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness and turns them against him- or herself.

Even in the face of contrary evidence, the psychopath can lie so well that listeners doubt themselves first, rather than question the psychopath.

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At a basic level, a person with a personality disorder has a limited range of stereotyped "solutions" that he or she applies to most of the problems encountered in life.

People who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are.

I have the feeling you are primarily two people,one of which should be killed.

Excessive and persistent levels of fear create changes in brain function that then interfere with decision-making processes.

Fear experiences can produce dramatic changes in the brain's architecture, resulting in profound alterations in our assumptions and perceptions.

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