Quotes About Psychology

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like to believe. Historical inquiry and behavioral science have demonstrated the "banality of evil" -- that is, under certain conditions and social pressures, ordinary people can commit acts that would otherwise be unthinkable.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.

The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine."

Muškarci se oporave od rastanka mnogo brže nego žene. Žena umire prilikom svakog rastanka. Muškarac se nakon svakog rastanka preporodi.

As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was I meeting people with multiplicity; these individuals entering my life were normal human beings with much to offer. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it.

Understand that each part that is experienced internally is a part of you, a person with DID.

Severe headaches are especially indicative of switching or internal conflicts among parts.

Men often substitute anger for grief, because anger is the only emotion they're taught it's acceptable to feel.

Psychologists John and Sandra Condry asked subjects to interpret why an infant was crying. If they had been told the baby was a boy, subjects thought he was angry, but if they had been told it was a girl, they thought she was afraid.

This has been one of my biggest surprises in writing this book: the distinction beetween introverts and extraverts did not come up in any of my previous books about relationships, but it emerged early on a significant factor in this one.

If there was one thing Sam understood, it was guilt. It didn't have to be logical; oftentimes it wasn't. It sawed at your gut relentlessly, tediously, until you wore it like a scar.

Dalam tindakan terkecilnya sekalipun, manusia selalu dibayangi motivasi sosial, manusia butuh justifikasi dari lingkungannya.

Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self conscious young adult) who no longer exists.

Resulta trágicamente irónico que el mismo cerebro que es capaz de conquistar el miedo pueda también someternos a los miedos que atormentan nuestras vidas.

The lower brain is satisfied when you feel good physically. The limbic system is satisfied when you feel good emotionally. The higher brain is satisfied when you are making good decisions for yourself. The

During sexual activity, oxytocin rises in women, making them bond with their sexual partners emotionally, but the effect doesn't seem to happen in men. Something strange

El desánimo es holístico: engloba el cerebro, la psique, las emociones, el comportamiento y las oportunidades posteriores en la vida.

Dark feelings can become a habit. And if they're strong enough, like many strong feelings, they can even be enjoyable.

The anatomy of what happens to each of us is shadowed and affected by what came before, and I was conditioned as a child to live with fear and worry.

If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.

men I could ever be interested in, writers and shrinks. Because they both have emotional curiosity. This