Quotes About Psychology

FINE stands for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical. I'm FINE.

FINE stood for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical.

FINE? Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical?

Jean Guy Beauvoir was loosely wrapped but tightly wound.

Ruth's last book of poetry was called I'm FINE. Which sounded good until you realized, often too late, that "F.I.N.E." stood for "Fucked-Up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical.

It was as though I wasn't human.' 'That's the necessary first step,' said Myrna. 'They dehumanise their victim. You've put it well.

The others said they wanted to get better, but I think, and this isn't popular in psychology circles' - here she leaned forward and whispered, conspiratorially - 'I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

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.

Scientists might appear rational, but they were in fact completely at the mercy of their emotions. Because most never learned to face them.

Armand Gamache found murderers by following the trail of rancid emotions. Beside

She'd been a psychologist in Montreal, until she'd realized most of her clients didn't really want to get better. They wanted a pill and reassurance that whatever was wrong wasn't their fault. So Myrna had chucked it all. She'd

when put in a room with both parents, would almost always embrace the abuser.

Actually, the real mystery is why more people don't commit murder. It must be terrible to be human.

The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid.

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

The longbow would still have been used in the Napoleonic Wars if the raw mathematics of killing effectiveness was all that mattered, since both the longbow's firing rate and its accuracy were much greater than that of a smoothbore musket. But a frightened man, thinking with his midbrain and going "ploink, ploink, ploink" with a bow, doesn't stand a chance against an equally frightened man going "BANG! BANG!" with a musket.

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

Los psiquiatras se centran demasiado en la escena primaria y la privación preedípica, me parece, e ignoran el trauma de la escuela y los otros niños, que son crueles y despiadados

My dominant right hand wrote the Inner Parent voices. My Inner Child spoke through my left hand.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

He called dreams a 'royal road' into the unconscious, made up of all forbidden wishes you had and you wished you didn't

Amnesia was one way for the mind to protect itself from reliving something that would otherwise break you apart.