Quotes About Psychology

When you're attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they're a perfect match.

we are not wired to make decisions about barely perceptible threats that gradually accelerate over time. We're not so different from the proverbial frog that boils to death in a pot of slowly warming water.

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

Common early indicators of serial murder are bed-wetting, fire-starting, and animal torture, sometimes called the McDonald Triad

it's crazy to think he wouldn't call the police. But I despise him. I don't care how irrational it is; if my mind worked normally, I wouldn't have killed eight people for the fun of it.

Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.

There was a gleam in her eye now that I did not like, that promised damage. "I want you to think about something. You might be immune to hypnosis- you might- but what about the veil already in place? What if I removed that veil so you could access your own memories of crossing the border?" the psychologist asked. "Would you like that, Little Flame? Would you like it or would you go mad?

If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy

He believed a kind of fragmentation had crept into people's minds in the modern era.

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

The ultimate weapon for the abusive individual is the refusal to communicate directly....

Although not conscious, everyone senses the potent sensitivity or volatility under the surface in the NPD individual.

Without parental grounding, she lacks the help she requires to process her intense emotional responses or the distorted versions of her idealized self. Stalled on the threshold of selfhood, the psyche of the child becomes increasingly preoccupied with her external self.

Mental suffering occurs when a child is psychologically abused. If a parent calls a child names, constantly belittles the child, blocks every effort on the part of the child to accept him/herself, this can cause mental suffering to the child. Threat of abandonment can also make the child anxious and afraid, and is another form of mental suffering.

The flip side of anger is helplessness. This feeling of helplessness can quickly turn into anger or rage.

The hallucinations of alcoholics provide us with an opportunity to study crowds as they appear in the minds of individuals.

You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.

A little self-hatred keeps a person interesting

Emotions have their effects even after you try to bully them out of existence.

Tal vez el principal obstáculo que nos impide comprender la muerte es que nuestro inconsciente es incapaz de aceptar que nuestra existencia deba terminar.

Debemos comprender que sólo existen dos miedos: el miedo a caerse y el miedo al ruido. Todos los otros miedos han sido impuestos poco a poco en nuestra infancia por los adultos, pues proyectaban sobre nosotros sus propios miedos y los transmitían así de generación en generación

The thought had occurred to me as I was flying to Salt Lake City earlier that day that Ted Bundy might offer to let me stay in his apartment" (p. 74). (Loftus testified as a defense expert for Ted Bundy in 1976)

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.