Quotes About Psychology

However much I try, I can't shake off the effects of the yips.

The mind shapes the body, and the body shapes the mind.

People who go into show business are screwed up.

It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.

If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don't, you'll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It's the same way in a fight.

I don't think people who are bad people think they're bad people.

When you're acting, playing the bad guy, you get a chance to open up this box inside and look at all the bad things that you've got in there.

The bashful are always aggressive at heart.

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.

I practice what has come to be called behavioral economics.

These qualities are beautifully encapsulated in the famous statement of Victor Frankl, himself a survivor of Auschwitz (and a neurologist and psychologist): "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR

Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear narrative that is assimilated into an ongoing life story….[R]ather, they are encoded in the form of vivid sensations and images. It

narcissistic personality disorder, or NPD. According to DSM-IV, NPD is distinguished by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy

According to many peer-reviewed studies, a large percentage of the victims of non-stranger rapes "actually feared they were going to be killed," even when "there was no weapon and no overt violence." Thompson

traumatized people find themselves reenacting some aspect of the trauma scene in disguised form, without realizing what they are doing….There

I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

Shame internalized can lead to agony.

Given all of this, you'd think LeBon's work might have at some point stopped being influential. But it never did. I suppose one reason for his enduring success is that we tend to love nothing more than to declare other people insane.

Even sleep offered no respite from my mental disorders. There was Nightmare Disorder, which is diagnosed when the sufferer dreams of being pursued or declared a failure. All my nightmares involve someone chasing me down the street while yelling, You're a failure!

There are obviously a lot of very ill people out there. But there are also people in the middle, getting overlabeled, becoming nothing more than a big splurge of madness in the minds of the people who benefit from it.     Bob