#psycho

Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#certainty #claims #convictions #doubt #fears

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #healing #illness #medicine #nothing

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#cause #convincingly #each #enough #everyone

And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

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Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century. ↗

— David Chalmers

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You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

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