Quotes About Psychology

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

we live behind our transparent walls that seem woven of gleaming air —we are always visible, always washed in light. We have nothing to hide from one another. Besides, this makes much easier the burdensome and noble task of the Guardians, for, Who knows what might happen otherwise? Perhaps it was precisely those bizarre, opaque dwellings of the ancients that gave rise to their psychology of individuality.

Half the game is 90% mental.

Ninety percent of this game is half mental.

I was born with a gloomy nature. I do not think I have ever known what it is to be cheerful and at ease.

Shunsuké hated the preoccupation with modern psychology that judged his casual, offhand remarks or his daily actions as betraying his identity or ideas with better clarity than did his highly polished sentences.

Los japoneses a diferencia de los americanos, no sufren conflictos interiores por causa de una severa conciencia puritana, pero sí muestran sus neurosis provocadas por el particular sistema de vida en las ciudades.

También esto forma parte de la terapia psicoanalítica, ajustando la mente con la economía.

Stekel dice que todos los síntomas neuróticos derivan de percances familiarres y que las personas neuróticas muestran los síntomas de una enfermedad que un agudo estudio definió como "familitis" (fiebre de la familia).

Comprendo que en América Latina la psicoterapia se haya convertido en algo similar a eso, porque se trata de una moda estúpida que no intenta más que uniformar a la humanidad, rica y variada; una moda que instruye a los seres mediocres deseosos de llevar una a una a las ovejas descarriadas al redil del conformismo.

Comprendo que en América la psicoterapia se haya convertido en algo similar a eso, porque se trata de una moda estúpida que no intenta más que uniformar a la humanidad, rica y variada; una moda que instruye a los seres mediocres deseosos de llevar una a una a las ovejas descarriadas al redil del conformismo.

Apparently the demented mouse also suffered from an eating disorder

Does happiness really depend on self-delusion?

Sapiens don't behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions.

Terrorism works by pressing the fear button deep in our minds and hijacking the private imagination of millions of individuals.

monkeys must have psychological needs and desires that go beyond their material requirements, and if these are not fulfilled, they will suffer greatly.

The algorithms controlling humans work through sensations, emotions and thoughts.

Feelings are thus not the opposite of rationality - they embody evolutionary rationality.

Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology ('Just do it!') to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression. It

Feelings are therefore not the opposite of rationality—they embody evolutionary rationality.

The proponents of this 'ancient commune' theory argue that the frequent infidelities that characterise modern marriages, and the high rates of divorce, not to mention the cornucopia of psychological complexes from which both children and adults suffer, all result from forcing humans to live in nuclear families and monogamous relationships that are incompatible with our biological software.

Similar probabilistic models have become central to economics, sociology, psychology, political science and the other social and natural sciences.