Quotes About Psychology

Toddlers, according to one research study, laugh 400 times a day. Adults laugh an average of four times. What happened?

Psychologists agree that when we view disorganized traits in a positive light and when such traits are nurtured as a special gift, children often grow into high-achieving adults.

People's youthful quirks can harden into adult pathologies. What's adorable at 20 can be worrisome at 30 and dangerous at 40.

If your child is your only goal in life, it's not good for the child," Danièle says. "What happens to the child if he's the only hope for his mother? I think this is the opinion of all psychoanalysts.

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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

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sometimes we hate something so much that we wind up identifying with it.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

Self-denigration is all too clearly a form of indirect self-glorification.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

Verla says that nobody thinks of himself as a villain. Even the nastiest person thinks that he is in the right.

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

If fourteen people believe they were Cleopatra in a former life, does that mean that Cleopatra had split personality disorder?

Stockholm Syndrome is what it is called when you begin to identify with your captors…. They get nicer every day that they don't kill you.

Some people have not learned to know what their feelings mean. Some have been trained not to feel much. And some have been trained not to know that they have feelings.

But almost everyone I have spoken to has said that being the object of a Control Connection leaves them feeling disintegrated, as if they were being dismantled within. By

As long as this child within is not allowed to become aware of what happened to him or her, a part of his or her emotional life will remain frozen, and sensitivity to the humiliations of childhood will therefore be dulled.

Verbally abusive women often have psychological disorders. I have not known these abusive women to seek help even when they face divorce. Some, as if they were victims, even initiate divorce. They seem to believe their accusations. In other words, their accusations are automatic explanations (confabulations) that their mind forms that explain to them why they feel attacked by their spouse's personhood, his success, or even his happiness.

Girls are born with more sensitivity to isolation and fear; boys are born with more sensitivity to arousal and shame.

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

Since the affliction was so plainly psychosomatic, the worst thing she could do was to give it space for thought.