Quotes About Psychology

The fixation he experienced during any of the developmental phases germinates into a fantasy which becomes more defined and more conscious as the child becomes older.

El matrimonio es un experimento… psicológico; la paternidad lo es… patológico.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act. The

At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings.

When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces.

Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

Why are some people weakened by stress, while others gain strength from it? Basically the answer is simple: those who know how to transform a hopeless situation into a new flow activity that can be controlled will be able to enjoy themselves, and emerge stronger from the ordeal.

El último gran intento de liberar a la conciencia del dominio de los impulsos y del control social fue el psicoanálisis;

Changing external conditions might seem to work at first, but if a person is not in control of his consciousness, the old fears or desires will soon return, reviving previous anxieties. One

Pleasure is a feeling of contentment that one achieves whenever information in consciousness says that expectations set by biological programs or by social conditioning have been met. The

A person who has achieved control over psychic energy and has invested it in consciously chosen goals cannot help but grow into a more complex being.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

But whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do live a happier life.

As Freud and many others before and after him have noted, civilization is built on the repression of individual desires.

The autotelic self transforms potentially entropic experience into flow.

Our perceptions about our lives are the outcome of many forces that shape experience, each having an impact on whether we feel good or bad.

Pleasure is a feeling of contentment that one achieves whenever information in consciousness says that expectations set by biological programs or by social conditioning have been met.

THE AUTOTELIC SELF: A SUMMARY

AT CERTAIN TIMES in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

Anger turned inward, for instance, can lead to depression

We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

all thoughts, no matter how altruistic, always end up being self-centred in some way if you give them long enough