Quotes About Psychology

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it's a good technique.

After all, I'm already a murderer. No one really expects a murderer to stop killing.

We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.

Psychics were therapists for people who couldn't admit they needed therapy. They were magic for people who desperately needed a little magic, back before magic was real

An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time.

Even if you are completely delusional, we still have to work out your delusion, right? An imaginary problem needs an imaginary solution.

Psychics were therapists for people who couldn't admit they needed therapy. They were magic for people who desperately needed a little magic, back before magic was real.

Maybe it was the shame that was the problem.

A student undergoing a word-association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "because everything does.

It was one of the best things about him; he liked to talk about people, study them, and work them out. He was interested in the complexities of relationships.

She wondered if it was similar to how people felt when they first took antidepressants and they lost their pain, but everything else felt muted too: flatter, duller.

A woman's relationship with her father will have a profound impact on all her future relationships with men. The fatherless daughter lacks a template. Fatherless daughters are more likely to be promiscuous—so GREAT, thanks Mum, I'm going to be a slut!!!!!!!!!! —Entry in Ellen O'Farrell's diary, written a week before her fifteenth birthday

No kid was going to go to school in a place that looked like freaking Buckingham Palace and come out of it resilient.

Yeah, I'm so crazy. Although probably that was evidence of her lack of craziness. Truly crazy people were too busy being crazy to think about it.

throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the approach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent's unreadyness to meet it. The indirectness has usually been physical, and always psychological.

One of the most interesting findings in modern psychology is that the way people perceive and interpret things affects how they feel about them. As the old saying goes, there are two sides to every story. Now, modern science tells us that the side people see affects what they think, how they feel, and ways they behave.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

it scared me, the idea that this professional might go in and find that other person inside me, the person who was feeling all the things I did not let myself feel.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

It's a useful exercise to forbid yourself the use of keynote words such as 'fury' or 'jealous' when dramatizing an emotional condition.