Quotes About Psychology

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Once men imagine a danger they soon turn it into a reality.

Where is the pain when your pride is wounded? And why do we say that: wounded? There is no gash, no blood, not even a scratch. Which part of us hurts? The brain cells? The neurons? What, for goodness' sake, what?

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

a teacher should never touch symbols. If he is going to use psychology he should do so more in action than in words.

Je crois que ma tâche première est d'approuver tout ce qu'un enfant désapprouve en lui-même - c'est-à-dire de briser la conscience qui lui est imposée par l'éducation et qui n'aboutit qu'à la haine de son moi. (p. 371)

Don't they say that all the people in your dreams are really yourself?

La neurasthénie, le bégaiement, les phobies, la kleptomanie, certaines paralysies, etc., ne sont autre chose que le résultat de l'action de l'inconscient sur l'être physique ou moral. - Neurasthenia, stuttering, phobias, kleptomania, certain paralyzes, etc., are nothing other than the result of the action of the unconscious on the physical or moral being.

Influence de l'imagination sur l'être moral et l'être physique de l'homme.

Quand la volonté et l'imagination sont en lutte, c'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte, sans aucune exception

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.

Christopher Lasch concluait cette passe d'armes : « La femme moderne ne peut résister à la tentation de vouloir dominer son mari ; et si elle y parvient, elle ne peut s'empêcher de le haïr. »

The therapeutic-psychodrama group at Esalen had helped her get that unwholesome idea out of her mind,

When the authorities disagree among themselves regarding the correct approach to psychological problems, where does the troubled person turn for help? In view of the opposed and apparently irreconcilable views represented by the different schools, he faces a serious dilemma: He is trapped between choosing a therapist blindly and trusting to luck or trying to cope with his psychological difficulties by himself.

In plain English: people who lie to themselves make good liars. And good liars usually have more sex.

The ability to lie successfully, then, is partly correlated with savvy social skills. Sucking up.

Both psychopaths and sociopaths hide their true selves behind a mask, as American psychiatrist Hervey

Men fake it because they can't get it up and get it right.

After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P's can stunt recovery: (1) personalization - the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness - the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and (3) permanence - the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever.

Psychologists discovered that there are two routes to achievement: conformity and originality. Conformity means following the crowd down conventional paths and maintaining the status quo. Originality is taking the road less traveled, championing a set of novel ideas that go against the grain but ultimately make things better.

Fear is contempt, whether the fearful know it or don't.

Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.

We make ourselves out of the demands others make of us, and out of whatever else we can use.

Winnicott once referred to depression as the 'fog over the battlefield'.