Quotes by Psychologists

The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie to women. Women lie to men. And most people agree that some lying is even necessary - to avoid petty squabbles and to grease the wheels of a relationship. Joyce Brothers
Relationship Heart Trust Women Lie People Men Important Matters Petty Lying Topic Some Factor Most Wheels Avoid Agree Even Why Necessary Here Grease
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. Joyce Brothers
Macbeth Would Promote Shakespeare Tour Never Had He Written Go Juliet Author Romeo Romeo And Juliet
There is such a thing as bad publicity. Joyce Brothers
Bad Such A Thing Publicity Thing
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all. Joyce Brothers
Mind Down Balcony Terrifying Around Trade Buildings Go Get Center Moment Watched
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. Karen Horney
Rare Our Civilization Perfect Normal Normal Person Person
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide. Karl A. Menninger
Sometimes Doubt Believe Suicide No Doubt Reader Nor Committed Any Committing Avert Hard
What's done to children, they will do to society. Karl A. Menninger
Will Society Done Children
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys. Karl A. Menninger
Police Bad Bad Guys Guys Nobody
Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances. Karl Abraham
Will Oppose Others Unknown Way Circumstances Easily Seduction Follow Temptation Observed Invitation React Him Another Opposite Yield Child Person Same Any Children Whereas Anyone Psychology Interested Who Hardly Resist Resistance
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. Karl Abraham
Patient State Abolish General Instincts Partly Normal Whereas Manic Inhibition Inhibitions Even Wholly
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. Karl Abraham
Snake Worm Phobias Neurotics Well Found
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day. Karl Abraham
Day Morning Anxiety Somewhere Expectation State Severe Out Finds Mental Having He Almost Tension Himself Course Permanent Go Wakes Person Anxious Who Suffers
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. Karl Jaspers
Alone Reality Become Past Own Philosophers Our Unless Comprehensible Study Discovered Questions Little Use Thinker
Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension. Karl Jaspers
Philosophy Comprehension Only Most Concrete
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. Karl Jaspers
History Philosophy Way Tested Which
The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me. Karl Jaspers
Life Me Law Intricate Perceived Mental Only Unsatisfied Study Know Because Juggling Left Did Fictions Which Interest Aspects Serve
To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet. Karl Jaspers
Me Poet Become Philosopher Seemed Foolish Decide
People talk about grief as if it's kind of an unremittingly awful thing, and it is. It is painful, but it's a very, very interesting sort of thing to go through, and it really helps you out. At the end of the day, it gets you through because you have to reform your relationship, and you have to figure out a way of getting to the future. Kay Redfield Jamison
Future Day Relationship You Grief People End Of The Day Way Out Kind About Through Talk Sort Because Go End Very Reform Gets Getting Interesting Really Your Painful Figure Helps Awful Thing
Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief. Kay Redfield Jamison
Confused Despairing Battleground Neurotic Beyond Been Place Psychotherapy Psychotic Elated Sanctuary Belief
No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. Kay Redfield Jamison
Alone Me Problem Prevent Both Take Likewise Deal Pill Pills Wanting Psychotherapy Depressions Help Amount Need
It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy. Kay Redfield Jamison
Life Relationship Strange Own Pills Odd Odd Thing Ultimately Owing Psychotherapy Unique Thing Profound
Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible. Kay Redfield Jamison
Me Down Thinking Relationships Ruining Alive Diminishes Out Possible Seductive Prevents Hospital Highs Clears Disastrous Makes Wool Psychotherapy Depressions Keeps Career
I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus. Kay Redfield Jamison
Love Animals Circus Idea Attracted Always Veterinarian Being Zoo
There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others. Kay Redfield Jamison
Work Education Depression Example Mistakes Difficult Bipolar Others Distinguishing Some About Between Induce Major For Example Well Diagnosis Common Forms Depressive Disorder Standard Agitation Lethal Medications
We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression. Kay Redfield Jamison
Depression Heart Cancer Matters Well-Informed Heart Disease Expect Disease Less Treatment
There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression. Kay Redfield Jamison
Depression World Looking Bipolar Responsible All-Around Genes Major Around Scientists Illness
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