Quotes About Psychology

Now is the age of anxiety.

The closest I ever came to a menage-a-trois was when I dated a schizophrenic.

Saying I don't take my meds because they make me feel funny. Is like cannibals saying they don't eat clowns because the taste funny.

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo -- and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.

Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

When we ruminate, we become fruitlessly preoccupied with the fact that we are unhappy and with the causes, meanings, and consequences of our unhappiness.

The memories of previous failures and the images of feared future scenarios that we bring to mind in the process add their own twist to the spiral of worsening mood.

The mind is constantly trawling through memories to find those that echo our current emotional state. For example, if you feel threatened, the mind instantly digs up memories of when you felt endangered in the past, so that you can spot similarities and find a way of escaping.

the anatomy of depression and of its four key dimensions: feelings, thoughts, body sensations, and behaviors

It turns out that every time a person gets depressed, the connections in the brain between mood, thoughts, the body, and behavior get stronger, making it easier for depression to be triggered again.

the act of smiling can itself make you happy. It

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Hypnosis can return an adult to more primitive levels of consciousness and may be related to reported memories of experiences in infancy.

Derealization—A feeling that one's surroundings are strange or unreal. Often involves previously familiar people.

Early identification of patients who suffer from dissociative symptoms and disorders is essential for successful treatment, because these disorders do not resolve spontaneously.

The great thing about treating borderline patients is that it is like having a supervisor always in the room.

Guilt feelings can cause people to experience severe depression after they have been successful in some work or personal project. Chronic bad luck accidents or impoverished social relations can stem from self-imposed guilt.

recipients of such praise do work harder, but only initially. Once they sense the manipulation behind the appreciation, their productivity drops.