Quotes About Psychology

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. Maybe there would be fewer crazy people. I am sure in myself there would not be many jails.

Take it's something kind of long—you start at the beginning and remember everything you can, right to the end. Every time it comes back you do that, from the first right through the finish. Pretty soon it'll get tired and pieces of it will go, and before long the whole thing will go." I tried it and it worked. I don't know whether the headshrinkers know this but they should.

You cannot cut the ground from under a man and expect him to act normally.

expect in many growed-up men you'd call sensible there's a little boy sleepin'—the little kid they onced was—that still keeps his fear of the dark.

Personal motivations to live are known to sometimes influence survival.

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

From the psychological jousting between sisters in the early family arena emerge the first tentative boundaries of their personalities.

Knowing more about family history is the single biggest predictor of a child's emotional well-being. Grandparents can play a special role in this process, too.

Many people's unhappiness is rooted in the habitual role they play. While our family role may have made sense growing up, it often wreaks havoc in our adult lives.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out.

We compensate for what we don't do internally by projecting and allowing our minds to be marinated in chronic fantasy.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Only your mind can produce fear.