#psych

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biography #only #psychology

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#close #flies #get #human #human psyche

In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients. ↗

— Hans Eysenck

#conclusions #data #facilitates #fail #freudian

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#am #asked #being #chicago #disorienting

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#also #certain #exclusively #generalizations #human

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. ↗

— Dario Argento

#censor #italy #judges #many #old

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst. ↗

— Lisa McMann

#sadness #wake #dreams

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#life

Through the ages, countless spiritual disciplines have urged us to look within ourselves and seek the truth. Part of that truth resides in a small, dark room -- one we are afraid to enter ↗

— Matthew J. Pallamary

#psychology #age