Quotes About Psychology

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

You have to teach yourself to block emotions that do not benefit you in a positive way.

All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.

Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

There are more men than women in mental hospitals...which just goes to show who's driving whom crazy.

Everyone has violence in themselves. I'm violent.

neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain and The Male Brain, which point out that a man has two and a half times as much brain space devoted to sexual pursuit as a woman, while the female brain's empathy system is considerably more active than the male's.3)

It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You're so innocent in the beginning; you don't know.

Depression Is Anger Without Enthusiasm. A

Lo que sentimos no depende tan solo de lo que esté ocurriendo en el cuerpo y en nuestra fisiología, sino también y, fundamentalmente, de las expectativas y de cómo estamos valorando una determinada situación.

Uno de los aspectos más relevantes en lo que concierne al sistema límbico es la necesidad de contacto físico y de generación de lazos afectivos. Nos tenemos que detener aquí porque este es el punto donde se van a desarrollar la mayor parte de los traumas emocionales que experimentamos los seres humanos y que se proyectan desde la época en la que éramos niños hasta la época en la que ya somos adultos.

Las amígdalas son los centros del sistema límbico donde se almacenan todos aquellos recuerdos que tienen un gran componente afectivo.

Es fácil deducir que, si me veo de una manera, todas las conductas, todas las acciones que emprenda tendrán mucha relación con la forma en la que me veo a mí mismo.

Emotions can even affect whether certain genes are turned "on" or "off"—altering, for example, our bodies' response to stress.

No sé, si uno se ríe verdaderamente con ganas, parece como si de pronto se te reacomodaran las vísceras, como si de pronto hubiera razones para el ptimismo, como si todo esto tuviera un sentido. Uno tendría que automedicarse la risa como un tratamiento de profilaxis sicológica, pero el problema, como te imaginarás, es que no abundan los motivos de risa.

While composite faces tend, by construction, to also be more symmetric, Langlois found that even after the effects of symmetry have been controlled, averageness was still judged to be attractive. These findings argue for a certain level of prototyping in the mind, since averageness might well be coupled with a prototypical template.

There might be a Starbucks on every corner and an iPhone at every ear, but don't worry, people are still fucking crazy.

Sommige ervarings word nooit vergeet nie, net onderdruk.

Why do some Germans become Nazis, and others resist?' 'You know the answer, darling,' Heidi said, putting her arm around Lola. 'A few are monsters, the rest look away.