Quotes About Psychology

This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author's imagination.

Psychologically, enviers wish to be the one God loves most, the Chosen One, the one whose being radiates excellence. Many women wish to star in this role, and many do. The male universe has room for many more stars; the female universe is therefore much smaller, and the competition quite fierce for the limited number of starring roles.

She would have to ride the nightmare in her sleep. Only that would keep it material, or enable her to dematerialize with it.

All learning has an emotional base.

El miedo es siempre compañero de la vergüenza.

Love is a serious mental illness.

The human soul is composed of reason, will & desire

educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they'd be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression.

In one study, Cummings found that children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.

Compassion and brutality can coexist in the same individual and in the same moment...

It was as if she thought life was a game, and she had to psych everyone out so she'd win.

I'm fine," I automatically tell her, because that's what I always tell her. And myself. But it doesn't take a paid psychologist to figure out that I'm not okay. I'm having flashbacks. Cold sweats. Nightmares. And now this

Nightmares aren't frightening once you wake up. Memories are.

Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention.

Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy

People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.

Freud would have had a grand time analyzing my have-to-die-clean complex. But then Freud was an ass.

But insanity is everywhere these days, and celebrated. Insanity is rapidly becoming the new normal.

Why would someone cut out his heart? Michael shrugged. Souvenir. Sexual gratification. Dinner.

Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow.

Why aren't we designed to be unable to harm one another? Why aren't our brains wired so that we can't kill or rape or steal or lie or deceive? Why are we formed with the capacity to hate and envy?

isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.