Quotes About Psychology

psychiatrist Dr. Abraham Twerski puts it, "Human beings need four things: air, food, drink, and someone to blame.

The happiness that the psychologically impaired achieve through religion alone is often the shallow happiness of the unexamined life.

Shell shock, they said in the First World War. Battle fatigue, in the Second. It's what happens when you live through things you shouldn't have been able to live through and can't reconcile that knowledge with the fact that you did.

The body forms internal scars as well as surface scars when a wound heals—and so does the mind.

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

You know when you go to Australia you will get sledged. That's the fun of the game.

When I have to do an emotional scene, I sometimes feel drained right before doing it.

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

I think playing a negative character is more difficult and challenging, since you have a lot to work on, and you have to put a lot of efforts.

You dream every night. Every person in the world, even if they don't remember, is dreaming every night.

Something my shrink once said bubbled up from memory: believing that everything is your fault is like saying the world revolves around you and that is pure narcissism and no less destructive.

This is how guilt infects, if you're afraid that someone will be angry with you, you immediately start feeling angry with them.

A counselor once told me the need to control is really about perfectionism and the inability to accept uncertainty. Do you agree with that?

One of the strongest feelings I remember from my childhood is, precisely, of being humiliated; of being knocked about by words, acts, or situations. Isn't it a fact that children are always feeling deeply humiliated in their relations with grown-ups and each other? I have a feeling children spend a good deal of their time humiliating one another. Our whole education is just one long humiliation, and it was even more so when I was a child.

This book, by Steven Pinker, is entitled THE BLANK SLATE: THE MODERN DENIAL OF HUMAN NATURE, and which, as the title unambiguously indicates, is a rather thundering broadside fired into the direction of the blank slate establishment. He is Professor of Psychology at MIT, has received many awards for his teaching, and for his earlier books HOW THE MIND WORKS, and THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT.

Well, during the 1930s, a lot of work was done on what was called 'mob consciousness', where anger or hysteria seems to get communicated by means other than reason or logic. This was suggestive of a group-mind kind of thing—somewhat linked together by a kind of communal telepathy.

Psychologically speaking, they tend also to be filled with grim, but devoted, researchers whose accumulated disappointment in not making big breakthroughs is quite tangible — even if they do manage to smile at subjects.

Robert Rivlin, a writer, and Karen Gravelle, a biopsychologist, teamed up to present the overall

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

And sometimes somebody is laughing--and that laugh is stuffing all of yesterday's and today's anger back into the mouth that it's oozing from.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.