Quotes About Psychology

In one of those odd bits of reverse psychology, it seems that the stuff people boast about as their strengths more often than not turn out to be their most egregious weaknesses.

If a person is argued into submission or politically subdued in one area but the underlying emotional need isn't met, he'll simply create another headache somewhere else.

Tengo un alumno psicoterapeuta. Nunca, nunca, le miro directamente a los ojos. Bajo ningún concepto. Creo que le voy a suspender.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Anger is about status injury.

Sociopaths are masterful at using other people's seemingly innocuous personal information against them.

There is simply no known way to create a conscience in an individual who does not have one.

A substantial proportion of people will do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority." Milgram believed that authority could put conscience to sleep because the obedient person makes an "adjustment of thought," which is to see himself as not responsible for his own actions.

To defeat a sociopath, you must understand the nature of "human predators.

Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.

when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, "I never did that," and will to all appearances believe their own direct lie.

after twenty-five years of treating trauma survivors, I have learned that getting hit is actually one of the more bearable ways a person can be assaulted.

Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy. I first learned this when

Points to Ponder • 75 percent of the world is extroverted. • Being introverted affects all areas of your life. • Nothing is wrong with you. • Introverts feel drained and overstimulated. • Being introverted is something to be celebrated.

To understand the ravings of a madman, one must have raved himself, but without having lost the awareness of one's madness,

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

Christians become friends with the world when they follow its psychological theories to understand themselves and others and to change behavior. They are friends of the world when they call sinful behavior "mental illness" and sinful habits "diseases.

Whether the codependency/recovery people know it or not, parent bashing is a direct result of Freudian psychology.

that the human race would become extinct if every member of it could see themselves having sex?

If you could not picture what people endured, how could you figure out what drove them to crime?

Notice how I'm playing the part of an enemy to code. I'm actively thinking about how I can break it. I find that state of mind to be both productive and fun. It indulges the mean-spirited part of my psyche. When you are doing tests, don't forget to check that expected errors occur properly.

The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button.

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.