“I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.” MomentsSituationPsychologyAccountsConvincedBoundariesPsychologicalOrganismsNew Situations Book:Conversations with Jean Piaget Source: Conversations with Jean Piaget
“The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.” HumansPsychologyTroubleHuman NatureAccounts Author:Ruth Rendell
“In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.” KnowsMayPersonsProblemNextSuccessfulPsychologyWeekEventsBrokenBeatsAccountsInfiniteLegsRangeFormulasExceptionalNext WeekPredictingBroken Leg Author:Atul Gawande
“Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.” SeemsExistencePsychologyJudgingPersonalityOffersAccountsUnconsciousLatterEvidentEldersAstrology Author:Carl Jung
“Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.” TakenPsychologyAccountsStructureMathematicalLogicalLinguisticsEpistemology Author:Jean Piaget
“Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, 'What then is science, particularly psychoanalytic psychology?' Whereup on he, visible a bit surprised, answered evasively: 'At least psychology has a social purpose.'” PhilosophyFormSciencePurposeSocialBitsOpinionPsychologyAccountsResponseSexualityDecentVisibleEarnestRepressedPsychoanalytic Author:Ludwig Binswanger