Quotes About Psychology

Perhaps your definition of your self-system lacks authentic boundaries. You've erected a precarious structure of personality on unconscious factors over which you have no control. That's why you feel threatened by me.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter - like acute disturbance of middle ear. Occasionally we list eccentrically, all sense of balance gone.

I think, Dr. Stone said, that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.

Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.

But a mood like that, Rick said, you're apt to stay in it, not dial your way out. Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating.

But a mood like that," Rick said, "you're apt to stay in it, not dial your way out. Despair like that, about total reality, is self-perpetuating.

She used to stand there and watch me do this shit back then, flashing me "Die!" messages, like they say in transactional analysis. Die. Do not be.

A portion of him turns against him and acts like another person, defeating him from inside. A man inside a man. Which is no man at all.

The difference between Gloria Knudson and Sherri was obvious; Gloria wanted to die for strictly imaginary reasons. Sherri would literally die whether she wanted to or not. Gloria had the option to cease playing her malignant death-game any time she psychologically wished, but Sherri did not.

He has integrated his early fears and guilts into one interwoven grid, the ship said to itself. There is no way I can serve up a pleasant memory to him because he instantly contaminates it.

Sound occurs in the ears. Sound does not occur in the atmosphere. It occurs essentially within the human being, and that's Descartes's great contribution to psychology and philosophy. Which is where that thing comes from where they say if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there, does it make a noise?

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid

I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

You don't have to work in a mental hospital to know about husbands and wives.

Look, I've got more personalities than I can use already. All you are is one too many.

Meneer Portnoy,' zei ze terwijl ze haar knapzak optilde, 'u bent alleen maar een jood die een hekel heeft aan zichzelf.' 'Ah, maar Naomi, dat zijn misschien juist de beste.

I have found in my life that I often phone one person when I expect myself, or others expect me, to be phoning someone else; it is what the telephone company calls displacement.

Victor Frankl? Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning?

1. Headline 2. Open – Promise or Negative Optism (See Chapter 9) 3. Credentials 4. Offer 5. Bullets 6. Choice of one 7. Price 8. Guarantee 9. Takeaway 10. Signature 11. P.S.

Happiness is so rare that our mind can turn somersaults to protect it.

Psychologist and marketing guru Ernest Dichter, known as the "father of motivational research," explains that when human beings become fearful, most will regress to soothing, even infantile, behaviors and animalistic drives to distract themselves from, and channel, their anxiety.