Quotes About Psychology

Real cutters dont cut for attention or for the pain, real cutters cut for the satisfaction of being in control something.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent?

Self-sabotage is an art only the most neurotic can master.

Every waking moments we talk to ourselves about the things we experience. Our self-talk, the thoughts we communicate to ourselves, in turn control the way we feel and act.

We all have voices in our heads which talks to us on an almost constant basis. Our voices give us messages continually, and what they say to us affects us.

People who are used to constant attention and flattery become inured to the merely pleasant and become "peak seekers." They expect the highs, and when their unrealistic goals or expectations are not met, they are not simply disappointed, they are devastated.

Another reason it's dangerous to acknowledge that you were unloved is that it implies the possibility that your mother may have been right-you are unlovable.

Another step is that daughters can learn to monitor their own feelings and instincts by saying, "I feel uncomfortable (angry, dominated, usurped, inadequate, guilty, furious) with my mother more often than I do not. I have to pay attention to that, because it shows in how I treat my friends (lover, spouse, kids, colleagues). There is validity here. I don't have to blame or excuse my mother-I just have to see her so I can see myself.

The psychological absence of fathers can be nearly as devastating as physical absence. When fathers are alive but not a predictable presence actively participating in their daughter's lives the relationship becomes a permanent "maybe.

But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.

Parental neglect even in intact families, can have a shattering effect on how daughters- even those with loving mothers- feel about men.

Father absence has been implicated in anorexia nervosa, in which daughters may exhibit literal father hunger by starving themselves.

Men, Shalini said sometimes, there is madness in men. He always kept quiet, but he always wanted to say, the madness is in their bones, not in their hearts, not in their heads.

Does anyone ever lie to us more than we lie to ourselves?

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.

Many people have a distorted concept of sin due to the influence of secular philosophy and psychology.

La predicción y la prevención del comportamiento violento forman una parte central de la práctica en psicología y en psiquiatría forense.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

No knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. What we say a man "knows", should, in strict psychological language, be what he "discovers" or "unveils"; what a man "learns" is really what he "discovers", by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.