Quotes About Psychology

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

She was a psychologist specializing in young people recovering from trauma involving spinal cord injuries.

In neuroscience, our textbook showed how the brain scans of people newly in love look a lot like the brain scans of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In each case, your dopamine is suppressing your serotonin.

There's nothing like feeling like sh_t to kill your libido.

Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't?

People have an amazing ability to cope with the madness of life. It's called denial. It'll take you a good mile, but only if life's horrors stay on the page of the newspaper where they belong.

anybody who started hunting for evidence of insanity in himself would certainly find plenty ? Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse, ch 20

The only possible justification for the existence of "Christian" psychology in the church would be if the Bible did not contain all of the counsel, wisdom, and guidance that Christians need for living sanctified lives pleasing to God in today's modern world.

What could possibly persuade a Christian to look to psychology, invented by anti-Christians and only lately come upon the scene, for help in living a life pleasing to God?

We do well to heed J. Vernon McGee's warning that if it continues to grow in favor, "Christian psychology could well be the death of the evangelical church." If biblical Christianity is to survive, it needs to purge itself completely of this viper that it has clutched to its breast.

The body can endure practically anything--pain, fatigue, you name it-- but its the mind that matters.

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

Freud, who spoke German, used the term zwangsneurose (obsessional neurosis). The word zwang was translated as 'obsession' in London, but 'compulsion' in New York. Faced with confusion, scientists introduced the hybrid term 'obsessive-compulsive', a label subsequently given to millions of people, as a compromise.

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. —O. H. Mowrer

The Zeigarnik Effect, as it has come to be known today, states simply that the brain naturally remembers and holds on to anything that is interrupted or incomplete. These interruptions and incompletions are called open loops.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. —Sally Kempton