Quotes About Psychology

We marry our unfinished business.

People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.

Displacement's a bitch, isn't it? We all use defense mechanisms to deal with anxiety, frustration, or unacceptable impulses, but what's fascinating about them is that we aren't aware of them in the moment.

Therapy elicits odd reactions because, in a way, it's like pornography. Both involve a kind of nudity.

you can't mute one emotion without muting the others.

such as depression and anxiety, personality

People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings. John

Sometimes "drama," no matter how unpleasant, can be a form of self-medication, a way to calm ourselves down by avoiding the crises brewing inside.

People want to be understood and to understand, but for most of us, our biggest problem is that we don't know what our problem is. We keep stepping in the same puddle. Why do I do the very thing that will guarantee my own unhappiness over and over again?

the upside of being a therapist's child is that nothing gets shoved under the rug; the downside is that you'll be totally screwed up anyway).

The eminent Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said this: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls." But he also said this: "Who looks inside, awakes.

Freud argued that "the physician should be impenetrable to the patient, and like a mirror, reflect nothing but what is shown to him.

reaction formation, unacceptable feelings or impulses are expressed as their opposite,

People don't have to tell you their stories with words because they always act them out for you.

Displacement (shifting a feeling toward one person onto a safer alternative) is considered a neurotic defense, neither primitive nor mature.

Una revisión de la literatura relevante demuestra que la felicidad es estadísticamente anormal,

Apparently, you can make people happy by delivering bad news and then taking it back (which, personally, would just make me mad). Still,

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think

figure that, having grown up watching me doing any number of things she considered humiliating when I was in a good mood, she was so terrified when I was in an angry one that the prospect was unthinkable to her.

Studies say that a woman can increase the likelihood of a man approaching her if she uncrosses her arms, makes subtle eye contact, and smiles

Cherophobia." She looked at him. "What?" "It's the fear of being happy.

Everything was perfectly healthy and normal here in Denial Land.

I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.