Quotes About Psychology

Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we're just born.

Guilt often takes the form of anger.

Mitch had a particular way with women—a formula of giving and withholding that almost always managed to hook them. Getting them to talk about themselves was the first step; remaining enigmatic was the second. There were other steps, but he used only the first two during that encounter.

Shame is cunning," Ms. Witt said. "Even if the feeling doesn't come from a rational place, it sticks. But that doesn't mean it's real.

Out of sight, out of mind. It's how i cope.

Apparently there's a right and wrong answer in chemistry, whereas in psychology, you can say whatever you want as long as you write five pages

The psychology degree comes from the fact that I was a chemistry major and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

I've read that one out of twenty-four people is a sociopath, and if you ask me, the other twenty-three of you should be worried.

I wonder if whoever invented World of Warcraft realizes it's practice for sociopaths.

Does it feed into my psychological patterns, my defense mechanisms, or does it take me beyond myself, make me more free, maybe more vulnerable, help me to participate more fully?

The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken.

Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.

What if there's no such thing as PMS, and this is just my personality?

Analyzing dreams is much like walking on water. There are a limited number of people who do it well.

There is none so troubled as one who thinks himself perfectly sane.

So much anger," she says softly. "It's the embarrassment, the humiliation. For a cerebral man like him, a professor of forensic psychology who's defined by his mind . . ." Her voice fades.

I don't think anything really heals trauma. You just find some kind of narrative to learn to cohabit with it.

Carl Jung said, "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

what monsters might lurk in a man?

Maybe the brutal bedding had destroyed a part of her brain.

Happiness (t) = w0+ w1 ?t?jCRj+ w2 ?t?jEVj+ w3 ?t?jRPEj Which all boils down to: Happiness equals reality minus expectations.