Quotes About Psychology

self-sabotage as a form of control.

The eminent Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said this: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Repetition compulsion is a formidable beast.

Some scientists have come up with a complex mathematical equation to predict happiness based on the premise that happiness stems not from how well things go but whether things go better than expected.

It's not that she's hiding her feelings; it's that she can't access them. There's a words for this kind of emotional blindness: alexithymia. She doesn't know what she's feeling of doesn't have the words to express it.

mistaking feeling less for feeling better.

Talking can keep people in their heads and safely away from their emotions.

numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.

Whereas Freud believed that people are driven to seek pleasure and avoid pain (his famous pleasure principle), Frankl maintained that people's primary drive isn't toward pleasure but toward finding meaning in their lives.

Happiness equals reality minus expectations. Apparently, you can make people happy by delivering bad news and then taking it back

It's not that she's hiding her feelings; it's that she can't access them. There's a word for this kind of emotional blindness: alexithymia. She doesn't know what she's feeling or doesn't have the words to express it.

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

Foarte multe dintre comportamentele noastre distructive prind r?d?cini într-un vid emo?ional, un gol care cauta sa fie umplut.

But those underreported numbers are still high. In any given year, some thirty million American adults are sitting on clinicians' couches, and the United States isn't even the world leader in therapy. (Fun fact: the countries with the most therapists per capita are, in descending order, Argentina, Austria, Australia, France, Canada, Switzerland, Iceland, and the United States.)

Children of defectives often feel guilt." These words seared into my brain.

such as mating, childbearing, and establishing an occupation, lead to confusion, emptiness, and psychological distress.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

When We Grow Up, We Have a Tendency to Re-create the Emotional Environment of Our Early Home Life This is not good or bad, right or wrong; it is just what we know inside as "home." We also tend to recreate in our personal relationships the relationships we had with our mothers or with our fathers, or what they had between them. Think how often you have had a lover or a boss who was "just like" your mother or father.

Sometimes people with cancer or other terminal illnesses have such a hard time saying "no" to an authoritative figure in their life, that on an unconscious level they will create a major dis-ease to say "no" for them.

Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and cruel, compassionate and wretched. Unraveling a murder was more about getting to know the people than the evidence. People who were contrary and contradictory, and who often didn't even know themselves.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

The near enemy. It's a psychological concept. Two emotions that look the same but are actually opposites. The one parades as the other, is mistaken for the other, but one is healthy and the other's sick, twisted.

transferring her hunger to eat into a hunger to hurt. He didn't turn round. She knew she should let it go, but it was too late. She'd chewed the insult over, torn it apart and swallowed it. The insult was part of her now.