Quotes About Psychology

What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.

I was born bad and I never have recovered.

No other religion ever raised Hell to such importance as Christianity, under which it became a fantastic underground kingdom of cruelty, surrounded by dense strata of legend, myth, religious creed, and what, from a distance, we might call dubious psychology.

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.

I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.

they are aware of having been misunderstood as children, they feel that the fault lay with them and with their inability to express themselves appropriately.

A psique de todos traz dentro de si certos conteúdos arquetípicos - os mitos lidam num nível coletivo com esses conteúdos.

Se o Sol é doador de vida, simbolicamente vinculado com a dimensão espiritual, a Lua se relaciona com a manifestação do espírito. Em tudo ela está ligada à expressão prática de assuntos mundanos [...]. A Lua passa por todos os signos e toca cada aspecto em todo mapa uma vez por mês. Hoje, pode-se dizer, ela representa, em termos psicológicos, nossa 'tarefa de casa' psíquica, aprender e aplicar.

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

It has been said that a girl grows up to choose a man who either bears a striking resemblance to her father, or one who is nothing like him. Both choices are, at their core, reactions.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

People found that Freuds know thyself led them to the couch, where they emptied their tank of the compressed fuel, which was intended to power them on their flight from opinion to knowledge.

Yêu là các ph?n ?ng hóa h?c trong não.

I sometimes joke that the only way to define mental disorder is "that which clinicians treat; researchers research; educators teach; and insurance companies pay for.

It is good to know and use the DSM definitions, but not to reify or worship them.31,32

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

I'm not crazy, but several of my other personalities are.

But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.

Here's the thing about lying: a part of you has to mean it—even if it is a tiny, sinister, shred that only lives in the blackest, darkest parts of your mind. You have to want it to be true.

Is it a fact that those who believe in a Heavenly Father do so because or partly because their earthly fathers were inadequate? I doubt it. If it is a fact, however, it is of psychological rather than theological interest. It may help us understand theists, but it tells us nothing at all about the truth of their belief; to that it is simply irrelevant.