#psycho

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

#considered #depends #dire #disease #himself

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

— Thomas Szasz

#hence #illness #mental #mental illness #psychotherapy

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

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #healing #illness #medicine #nothing

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#becomes #consciousness #construed #event #experienced

I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#bipolar-life #mental-illness #psychology #life

What social psychology has given to an understanding of human nature is the disceovery that forces larger than ourselves determine our mental life and our actions - chief among these forces [is] the power of the social situation ↗

— Mahrzarin Banaji

#social-psychology #life

Anthropologist Donald Symons is as amazed as we are at frequent attempts to argue that monogamous gibbons could serve as viable models for human sexuality, writing, "Talk of why (or whether) humans pair bond like gibbons strikes me as belonging to the same realm of discourse as talk of why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings. ↗

— Cacilda Jethá

#monogamy #science #science

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#being #get #i #like #mean

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfort of such an experience by asserting control over someone else. ↗

— A. Nicholas Groth

#psychology #experience

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#i #majored #modified #psychology