#psych

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic. ↗

— Suzanne C. Segerstrom

#psychology #attitude

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hard #hard times #muscles #need #oppression

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#disturb #disturbance #every #future #herself

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#directive #foolishly #forms #freudian #i

Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#angry #because #been #exceptionally #flying

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#audience #certain #harmony #know #more

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#attainable #helps #measure #probability #psychology

You know, there's chronological age, there's biological age, and there's psychological age. Chronological age, there's nothing you can do about, which is I'm 52. You set that number aside. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#age #aside #biological #chronological #i

That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#go #grew #psychiatrist #up #weak

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#been #benevolence #both #difference #enormous