Quotes About Psychology

Make full use of the fact that up to a certain point, fatigue makes women talk more and men talk less. Much secret resentment, even between lovers, can be raised from this.

Trauma comes back as a reaction, not a memory.

Our laughter is only a note or two short of a scream of fear.

If Ivan was thought of as an evasive, irresolute and will-less man in later years, one has to suppose that his mother had broken his will.

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

How does language interact with thought? Does language enable us to think, or does thinking enable us to talk?

Indeed, one could go so far as to say that humor helps as an effective antidote against a useless struggle against the ultimate danger: the ever-present fear of death in self-conscious beings like us.

The Magician represents the man who has attained harmony and equilibrium between the spontaneity of the unconscious (in the sense given to it by C. G. Jung) and the deliberate action of the conscious (in the sense of "I" or ego consciousness).

The Hidden Persuaders

Perhaps the best way to teach Freud today is as literature, with his standing in psychology departments oscillating between embarrassing footnote and outright pariah.

As the term wears on I sometimes feel undermined by a sub-textual doppelganger, a shadow Freud haunting the classroom.

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Using phrases of three words, presented in groups of three, is a technique known as the rule of three in psychological conditioning.

people cause so much of their own suffering just because they think that without having these strong emotions they're not real people.

Marketing theory says that people are driven by fear, by the promise of exclusivity, by guilt and greed, and by the need for approval. Advertising technology, armed with market research and sophisticated psychology, aims to throw us off balance emotionally—and then promises to resolve our discomfort with a product.

Therefore, according to activity theory, the ultimate cause behind human activities is needs. Needs

Proctor is a moralist who says, "I've always believed that why a subject behaved as he did was a proper subject for medical study, but how he behaved was a proper basis for judging a person.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

In the world of money and investing, you must learn to control your emotions.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.