#psych

My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity. ↗

— Dana Snyder

#always #been #exploring #human #human psyche

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#because #explanation #happen #happened #most

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

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. ↗

— Uri Geller

#agencies #because #big #even #heads

They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time. ↗

— John Sweeney

#big #big time #boulevard #called #death

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

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#information #long #psychoanalysts #seem #short

I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague impressions of those days because it was a time of complete darkness for me. Somebody told me later that what I had was a form of hysteria: my body and my mid fled into paralysis. There was nothing wrong with me organically, but somewhere inside I suffered a complete breakdown. ↗

— Diet Eman

#darkness #hysteria #mind-power #paralysis #psychology