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“Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.”
Source: History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation
“Psychology motivates the quality of analysis and puts it to use. Psychology is the driver and analysis is the road map.”
“Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the historical sciences, in order to obtain an understanding for the more highly developed metal processes.”
“Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.”
Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology
“Psychology of small things rules.”
Source: A Few Seconds of Panic: A 5-Foot-8, 170-Pound, 43-Year-Old Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
“Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.”
“Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Psychology plays a big part but I always say psychology will only be a differentiator when the players are of equal technical strength.”
“Psychology’s service to U.S. national security has produced a variant of what the psychiatrist Robert Lifton has called, in his study of Nazi doctors, a “Faustian bargain.” In this case, the price paid has been the American Psychological Association’s collective silence, ethical “numbing,” and, over time, historical amnesia. 3 Indeed, Lifton emphasizes that “the Nazis were not the only ones to involve doctors in evil”; in defense of this argument, he cites the Cold War “role of …American physicians and psychologists employed by the Central Intelligence Agency…for unethical medical and psychological experiments involving drugs and mind manipulation.” 4”
Source: Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation
“Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.”
Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage”
“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.”
“Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.”
“Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.”
“Psychology tricks. They alter your psychology, make you seem negative which serves their interest to exclude you, because everyone wants a happy person who smiles even if it is fake.”
Source: Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy
“Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.”
“Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.”
“Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.”
“Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.”
“Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?”
“Psychology, which explains everything,
Explains nothing,
And we are still in doubt.”
Source: Complete Poems
“Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Psychopahy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their babies in past generations.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Psychopathic individuals have a neurobiologic impairment in the ability to recognize and process fear and sadness in the facial expressions or voices of other people. It's as though they're blind and deaf to the pain of those around them.”
Source: The Other Side of Normal: How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior – A Fascinating Exploration of What Makes Us Human
“Psychopaths are generally viewed as aggressive, insensitive, charismatic, irresponsible, intelligent, dangerous, hedonistic, narcissistic and antisocial. These are persons who can masterfully explain another person's problems and what must be done to overcome them, but who appear to have little or no insight into their own lives or how to correct their own problems. Those psychopaths who can articulate solutions for their own personal problems usually fail to follow them through. Psychopaths are perceived as exceptional manipulators capable of feigning emotions in order to carry out their personal agendas. Without remorse for the plight of their victims, they are adept at rationalization, projection, and other psychological defense mechanisms. The veneer of stability, friendliness, and normality belies a deeply disturbed personality. Outwardly there appears to be nothing abnormal about their personalities, even their behavior. They are careful to maintain social distance and share intimacy only with those whom they can psychologically control. They are noted for their inability to maintain long-term commitments to people or programs.”
Source: Serial Murderers and their Victims
“Psychopaths are odd and rare and unique by themself... if they were writers, I bet in one that they will be the best...”
“Psychopaths are rarely in touch with their own feelings, emotional well-being, and psychological needs.”
“Psychopaths are rats in the lab, Psychopaths don't have conscious... What next???
- (Dexter Series season 8 episode 3...)”
“Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.”
“Psychopaths can only be ruled by Psychopaths.”
“Psychopaths do not have the same capacity for human feeling as the rest of us, they do not appear moved by the things that usually deeply affect others, such as seeing fellow human beings suffer or in distress. And this is perhaps why they do not experience genuine remorse for the hurt and misfortune that they inflict.”
Source: Psychopathy: A Very Short Introduction
“Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.”
“Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.”
“Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.”
Source: Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfri end
“Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.”
“Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”
Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That's what most of my characters are like.”
“Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.”
Source: Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
“Psychopathy is basically the absence of sympathy. There are fewer female psychopaths, perhaps because female psychophats would not have shown sufficient sympathy to their babies in past generations.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Psychos and megalomaniacs are my forte, remember? They all wanna hang with me”
Source: Alien in the Family
“Psychos are in uniform circulation in society.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.”
“Psychosis is a very Western phenomena.”
“Psychosis, it seemed to some, was in the air. One unhappy host played Phil a copy of Marshall McLuhan's 1968 LP The Medium is the Massage, an audio collage inspired by the resonating global echo chamber that McLuhan believed formed a new electronic form of “acoustic space.” When the recording began, Dick clapped his hands over his ears and screamed, “Turn it off! Turn it off! It sounds like the inside of my head when I go mad and have to go the hospital.”
Source: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experiences in the Seventies
“Psychosis means being locked up in a dark square and unable to find yourself.”
Source: Brainwashed: From Illusion to Autonomy
“Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in other words, its core. This core is of an entirely different nature from all the elements (physical sensations, feelings, thoughts and so on) that make up our personality. As a consequence, it can act as a unifying center, directing those element and bring them into the unity of an organic wholeness.”
“Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives.”
Source: Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings
“Psychoterapia jest jak pudełko czekoladek, nigdy nie wiadomo, co się trafi.”
Source: Jak zawsze
“Psychotherapy -- A long, drawn out process consisting of subtle probings of the human mind, whereby women are blamed for all of Freud's shortcomings.”
“Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living.”
Source: How to survive parenthood