1668 quotes by psychologists for you to enjoy

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality. Karen Horney

Free Everyday Thou Morality Shalt Thyself Convention

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls. Karl Jaspers

Life Technically Community Channels Individuals Masses Inwardly Souls Human Order Human Beings Which Organisation Produced Beings Connects

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones. Kay Redfield Jamison

Positive Depression Anger Emotions Anxiety Temperament Vital Morbid More Catalog Leave Clinical Psychologists Reasons Chosen Largely Necessity Dissect

I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease. Kay Redfield Jamison

I say I'm an academic: a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. And I write. Kay Redfield Jamison

Say Hopkins Write Academic Psychiatry Professor

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. M. Scott Peck

Wisdom Discipline Vice Versa Versa Vice

Do what you say you're going to do. Follow through means never having to say you're sorry. Mark Goulston

You Sorry Say Follow Follow Through Having Through Never Going Means

PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn't go away. Mark Goulston

You Feeling Go Away Past Extreme Following Retrospect Vulnerability Understand How Occurs Causes Go Survived Get Trauma Away Awful

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity. Martin Seligman

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad. Martin Seligman

Sad Angry You Be Happy Happy Suffering Believe Say Those One Of The Things Mental Mental Illness Opposite Were Continuum Same Anxious Just Ends Psychologists Depressed Used Moment Illness Things

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it. May-Britt Moser

Good You Result Will Focus Before Final Hunt Details Both Excellence Perfection Know Lot Common Really Researcher Designer

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others. Paul Bloom

Better Others Happier Social Connected Beings Humans

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. Paul Watzlawick

Secret Propaganda Totally Lay He Ideas Him Without Person Being Hold Wants The Secret Of Noticing Even Whom Saturate Saturated

Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha's insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha's basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness. Peter A. Levine

Life Nature Suffering Healing Guidance Mirror Sense Our Though Insight Examining Recovering Buddha Powerful Identical Provide Effects Offers Your Teaching Trauma Wholeness Basic

Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these 'violations' can cause loss of vitality, diminished capacity for erotic connection and pleasure, and other symptoms of trauma. Peter A. Levine

Abortion Cause Other Symptoms Pleasure Diminished Sexual Vitality Performed Frequently Loss Any Capacity Organs Internal Connection Trauma Violations

Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline. Peter A. Levine

Heart Increase Increasing Our Respiration System Response Threat Objective Rate Adrenaline Tension Source Heart Rate Escape Get Whole Prepare Flooded Away Basic Level Basically Muscles

The most you get is what you ask for. Phil McGraw

You Most Get Ask

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering. Phil McGraw

Suffering Challenge Everyone Finding Faces Meaning

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own. Phil McGraw

Judgment Own Else My Own Anybody Substitute

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable. Phil McGraw

You Treat Everything Out Willing Debt Get Trying

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