Quotes About Psychology

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.

So you faked it to give Zimbardo a better study?" I asked. "It was completely deliberate on my part," he replied. "I planned it. I mapped it out. I carried it through. It was all done for a purpose. I thought I was doing something good at the time.

That's the psychopath: somebody who doesn't understand what's going on emotionally, but understands that something important has happened." But

I would also say you can never reduce any person to a diagnostic label.

All over the world, famous people began declaring themselves LeBon fans. Like Mussolini: "I have read all the work of Gustave LeBon and I don't know how many times I have reread The Crowd. It is a capital work to which, to this day, I frequently refer." And Goebbels: "Goebbels thinks that no one since the Frenchman LeBon has understood the mind of the masses as well as he," wrote Goebbels's aide Rudolf Semmler in his wartime diary.

Goebbels thinks that no one since the Frenchman LeBon has understood the mind of the masses as well as he," wrote Goebbels's aide Rudolf Semmler in his wartime diary.

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.

As a group they tend to be more charming than most people," she said. "They have no warm emotions of their own but will study the rest of us.

His idea was that humans totally lose control of their behavior in a crowd.

complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.

Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal," said Allen Frances.

the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.

Sociopaths love power. They love winning. If you take loving kindness out of the human brain, there's not much left except the will to win.

He said hurting people was better than sex.

Tony faking his brain going wrong was a sign that his brain had gone wrong.

psychopaths made the world go around.

we tend to love nothing more than to declare other people insane.

It turns out that the concept of group madness was the creation of a nineteenth-century French doctor called Gustave Le Bon. His idea was that humans totally lose control of their behaviour in a crowd. Our free will evaporates. A contagious madness takes over, a complete lack of restraint. We can't stop ourselves.

All violence {is} a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

As a group they tend to be more charming than most people, she said. They have no warm emotions of their own but will study the rest of us. They're the boss or the coworker who likes to make other people jump just for the pleasure of seeing them jump. They're the spouse who marries to look socially normal but inside the marriage shows no love after the initial charm wears off.

all violence being a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.

It was this other side of Avery - the fact that he so visibly had an other side - that was helping me finally understand all three of the dimensions in Kafka: that a man could be a sweet, sympathetic, comically needy victim and a lascivious, self-aggrandizing, grudge-bearing bore, and also, crucially, a third thing: a flickering consciousness, a simultaneity of culpable urge and poignant self-reproach, a person in process.

As one anthropologist pointed out to me, trauma is usually a group experience, so trauma recovery should be a group experience as well. But in our society it's not.