Quotes About Psychology

I couldn't shake the feeling that Guy was more complicated than a good-ole-boy mango grower and Schein had more secrets than Freud's Wolf Man.

Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.

Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.

This parallel between physics and psychology should come as no big surprise, for it is the human mind that has created quantum physics in the first place.

In my mind android is a metaphor for people who are physiologically human but behaving in a nonhuman way.

He says there are a total of 54 negative emotions such as fear, anger, depression, resentment, loneliness, etc., and he claims that every one of them is based on blame. Furthermore, he insists that anyone can eliminate all 54 negative emotions from their lives by accepting full responsibility for their feelings and thereby no longer blaming any other person or situation for how they feel.

It is a basic psychological teaching that if we want to change the way we feel, we must first change the way we act.

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

Research indicates that the longest-living people in the world were distinguishable by their pessimistic outlooks.

His story and the detailed nature of his belief system make me suspect that he is suffering from paranoid ideas. I love that: I'm suspicious that Mr. Hill is suspicious. It makes me think of those now yellowing crime-fighting signs from ten or fifteen years earlier that say: Report suspicious people. Suspicious people report suspicious people. Suspicious people report suspicious people report suspicious people. Add paranoia, stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat.

Freud was not a scientist, although that's the way he thought of himself.

Psychic equivalence needs to be recognized and, as far as possible, challenged. There will be no progress while the patient is stuck in this way of experiencing reality. The therapist has one major task: get them out of it, if possible. It is fundamental to the symptoms of eating disorders, exemplified by the idea "I feel fat, therefore I am fat".

Psychologically [the proliferation of] silent reading emboldened the reader because it placed the source of his curiosity completely under personal control.

I was also skeptical about what all the grunge bands would do on their second albums. There were a lot of great first albums, but what would they do once they were platinum acts instead of kids living in roach-infested garages? I mean, if they were so miserable, once they had money, they could all go see shrinks.

For HCPs, there often cannot be any shades of gray. This is called splitting. You may recognize this all-or-nothing, black-and-white thinking when you hear an HCP say things like, "You always do this," and "You never do that.

writes that people with BPD who under-express anger "fear they will lose control if they express even the slightest anger, and at other times they fear that targets of even minor anger expression will retaliate.

Vulnerability opens us up to being shamed. To someone with BPD, controlling others is a way to ensure that no one can ever shame them. In practice, however, people with BPD often attempt to control others by putting them in no-win situations, creating chaos, or accusing others of trying to control them.

When you or your loved one have an intense reaction to something, chances are good that one of your triggers or "hot buttons" has been pushed.

Borderlines with abusive backgrounds may be replaying scripts from the past.

The neurotic is aware of the danger of a situation in which his unrealistic self-affirmation is broken down and no realistic self-affirmation takes its place.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.

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