#psych

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions. ↗

— Susan Pease Banitt

#healing #mental-health #psychology #ptsd #spirituality

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#guilt #impotence #iraq-war #leftism #pathology

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#individuality #introspection #psychology #consciousness

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #religion

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try to explain a whole field of nature in its narrow terms - runs riot here (in psychoanalysis). Moreover, the exaggeration of the importance of suppressed sexual complexes is a dangerous falsehood. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#psychoanalysis #psychology #sexuality #subconscious #yoga

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#delights #especially #everyone #just #me

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves. ↗

— Martha Beck

#choice #feels #giving #may #money

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing. ↗

— Boris Becker

#head #i #keep #playing #psychological

When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood. ↗

— M.E. Thomas

#feminism #feminist #gender #gender-roles #gender-stereotypes

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#jews #nationality #other #people #psychosis