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Psychology Quotes |
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. -Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 BCE) Of course, Behaviorism 'works.' So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. - W. H. Auden All are
lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. -Ambrose
Bierce, writer (1842-1914) If you need
therapy once a week, you see a therapist. If you need therapy 4 times a week, you
go into analysis. If you need therapy 20 times a week, you *become* a therapist.
- Simon Budman (the brief therapy guy) Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! -Miguel de Cervantes, writer (1547-1616) Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing. -Margaret Chittenden, writer The extreme limit of wisdom- that's what the public calls madness. --Jean Cocteau The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. -Salvador Dali, painter (1904-1989) ....it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane -- Philip K.
Dick The most sophisticated defense mechanism I ever encountered was becoming a psychotherapist. -Anna Freud The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want? -- Freud A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.--Sigmund Freud Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the
average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and
to a greater or lesser extent. Psychopathology may be viewed as stories gone mad and
psychotherapy may be viewed as acts of story repair... (Howard, 1990) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - C. G. Jung
(1875-1961) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. -Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist (1875-1961) To confront a person with his own shadow is to show him his own light. -Carl G. Jung, psychiatrist (1875-1961) Psychotherapy is not an applied science, it is a basic science in which the scientists are the client and his therapist --George Kelly To define psychotherapy as a form of treatment--Something one person does to another--is misleading. Psychotherapy takes place when one person makes constructive use of another who has offered himself for that purpose.--George Kelly
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.-Nathaniel Lee (on being consigned to a mental institution, circa 17th c.) Illness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his world. -Karl Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990) What's done to children, they will do to society. -Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990) The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act. --Stanley Milgram The problem I find in formulating my answers is how to walk the tenuous line between dialogue and polemic, and how to be true to differences while respectful of the commonalities in thinking' Minuchin Journal of Marital and family Therapy (1999)
Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats. -O'Neill
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt
it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from
making.--Lillian Smith
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which
the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the
sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
-Lionel Trilling As for me, you must know, I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice. What consoles me is that I am beginning to consider madness as an illness like any other and that I accept it as such. --Vincent Van Gogh
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
A hypochondriac is a person who wants to have his ache and treat it too.
A neurotic is a person who has discovered the secret of
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