#psych

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#chooses #concerns #cultural #deal #given

If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know. ↗

— Harry Stack Sullivan

#equal #feel #headaches #i #i do

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. ↗

— James M. Baldwin

#had #less #more #other #period

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings. ↗

— John Blair

#brutality #psychology #than #worse

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making. ↗

— Guy Pearce

#exploration #film-making #form #happens #human

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 think politics come out of psychology. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#i #i think #out #politics #psychology

But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin to thrive in this exciting age of our humanity’s journey toward a greater life and a more fundamentally intelligent evolution of our species. ↗

— Martha Char Love

#gut-instincts #intuition #psychology #age

The assertion that "culture" explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men as husbands, or of parents cloistering their sons but not their daughters to protect their sons' virtue, or when cultural distributions for preferences concerning physical attractiveness, earning power, relative age, and so on show as many cultures with bias in one direction as in the other. ↗

— John Tooby

#evolutionary-psychology #sexes #age

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