Quotes About Psychology

I would have thought that you'd be tired of vomiting blood and going to therapy and the prospect of being a nervous wreck all your life. Trés masochistic.

Our earliest ancestors evolved a psychological switch that allowed them to dehumanize and kill members of their own species, and our modern weapons help too, by depersonalizing killing.

CEOS who are neurotic impostors are also likely to become addicted to consulting companies.

San Juan points out that the two great enemies of integration within man are his mind and his emotions.

For example, in treating patients, I find that it is typically useless to concentrate a lot on why a patient is in trouble; that tends to be academic masturbation and can go on for years with no beneficial results.

Manipulative coping, however, is an unproductive cycle.

Os poetas são valiosíssimos aliados, cujo testemunho deve estimar-se em alto grau, pois costumam conhecer muitas coisas existentes no céu e na terra, que a nossa filosofia nem sequer suspeita. Na psicologia, sobretudo, encontram-se homens vulgares muito acima de nós, pois bebem na fonte a que não conseguimos ainda fazer chegar a ciência.

Maybe it is this discrepancy between the aging of the body and the longevity of subjective psychology that prompted the establishment of a distinction between body and soul, which seems obvious and natural to many and makes them believe, more or less vaguely, in the immortality of a spiritual principle.

We no longer have a simple relationship with our own bodies, with ourselves.

When it is a question of ascertaining whether or not some human act has really taken place, [historians] cannot be too painstaking. If they proceed to the reasons for that act, they are content with the merest appearance, ordinarily founded upon one of those maxims of common-place psychology which are neither more nor less true than their opposites.

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

L'habitude! aménageuse habile mais bien lente et qui commence par laisser souffrir notre esprit pendant des semaines dans une installation provisoire; mais que malgré tout il est bien heureux de trouver, car sans l'habitude et réduit à ses seuls moyens il serait impuissant à nous rendre un logis habitable.

How much farther does anguish penetrate in psychology than psychology itself!

He beguiled me almost by surprise into doing wrong, then he got me accustomed to having bad thoughts which I had no will to resist—willpower being the only force capable of driving them back to the infernal darkness from which they emerged.

Swann's father, an excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts. Several

Trauma occurs when something happens that's too horrible for your brain to deal with, so you just store it away. Over time, the horrible thing, which is still there, starts coming out in a variety of ugly ways, causing mental problems that you don't even associate with the trauma because it happened so long ago.

argued that depression is a terrible word for the affliction. Should be called something like mindstorm. Still, Lucas's intuition told him that mindstorms didn't just show up: they needed something to chew on.

Fighting someone who was intimately aware of your internal state of mind made it an interesting extra challenge.

The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt—and there is the story of mankind. I think that if rejection could be amputated, the human would not be what he is.

Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee

And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish.

repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.