#psych

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#explain #genetic #higher #how #judged

I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#mood-swings #psychiatry #funny

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#am #communication #drawn #dynamics #find

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#culture #everything #had #handmade #i

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#bad #coke #fiends #hang #marriage

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#class #concepts #descriptive #discussing #faculties

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#as far as #deal #far #get #know

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#book #expected #i #other #primarily

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance. ↗

— John Malkovich

#die #directors #during #everything #expect

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#celebration #comes #intellectual #moment #psycho