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“The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.”

Women Dark Psychology Adults Continents

Author:Sigmund Freud

“With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and that needs to be first-person. In the children's books, I feel I need some distance. I don't want to be the nine-year-old at the center of the story. I need to have some type of narrative voice.”

“Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.”

People Film Psychology Childhood Effects Adults Sexuality Shocking Taboo

Author:Tippi Hedren

“Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Children Sometimes Kids Given Behinds Psychology Figures Adults Crave Junk Junk Food

Author:Zoe Lister-Jones

“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.”

“Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.”

Believe Children Stills Book Use Humanity Stuff Psychology Devil Adults Angel Logic Boring Clarity Believe In God Witch Sociology Obsolete Punctuation Detest Allusion Goblin

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.”

Way Want Needs May Form Mother Wish Understanding Psychology Demand Understood Adults Meetings Nostalgia Violent Hook Vengeance Grudge Vengeful

Author:Adam Phillips

“It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.”

Children Problem Law Science Growth Known Psychology Doors Future Adults Determination Fundamentals Evident Forecasts Investigating

Book:The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children

Source: The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children

“We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.”

Knows Needs Feels Littles Girl Dark Boys Psychology Adults Sexuality Ashamed Distinction Continents

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens and hardships of reality, it must be asserted that just the opposite is true. What we learn about the child and the adult through psychoanalysis shows that all the sufferings of later life are for the most part repetitions of these earlier ones, and that every child in the first years of life goes through and immeasurable degree of suffering.”

Years Firsts Children Shows Reality Suffering Belief Results Psychology Conflict Degrees Adults Opposites Burden Hardship Repetition Psychoanalysis Pedagogy Years Of Life

Author:Melanie Klein

“In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody's got to be crazy about that kid. That's number one. First, last and always.”

“It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.”

Source: Healology

“[One way] researchers sometimes evaluate people's judgments is to compare those judgments with those of more mature or experienced individuals. This method has its limitations too, because mature or experienced individuals are sometimes so set in their ways that they can't properly evaluate new or unique conditions or adopt new approaches to solving problems.”

Source: Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence