Quotes About Psychology

Your nervous system can't tell real failure from imagined failure.

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

Theres 3 stages of my tiredness, first one being grumpy then depressed and finally weird.

Girls being insecure is a natural female trait if you ask me.

It takes 17 muscles for a human to smile. So it doesn't necessarily mean you're happy when you smile, it means you're strong.

Psychology says you will never really stop loving someone. Either you never did, or you always will.

Pretending to be okay is a natural defense mechanism of the mind. A persons way of attempting to remains strong!

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

Psychology forces everything we call love into the pathological or the delusional or the biologically explicable, that if that I was feeling wasn't love then I am forced to admit that I don't know what love is, or, more simply, that I loved a bad man.

Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced [...} It's only lately that I've realized that Winnicott is not suggesting that breakdowns do not recut. Now I see that he may be suggesting just the opposite: that a fear of breakdown in our past may be precisely what causes it to repeat in our future

But why bother with diagnoses at all, if a diagnosis is but a restatement of the problem?

the history of psychology does not exactly fill me with faith in its teleological progress. p. 204

IN ONE OF his last psychoanalytic papers, D. W. Winnicott wrote: Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced.

The mysteries of psychology pale in comparison, just as evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.

Can she help it if the unconscious is a sewer?

Professor Adam Galinsky, an American social psychologist who has studied the connection between creativity and international travel, says that 'Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought, the ability to make deep connections between disparate forms.'1

Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

People regressed, around their families, to the age at which they had been angriest.