#psycho

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes. ↗

— Julian Sands

#asked #broader #characters #doing #dramas

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#anything #both #different #difficult #doing

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#diplomat #dull #experimental #financier #i

Individual psychotherapy - that is, engaging a distressed fellow human in a disciplined conversation and human relationship - requires that the therapist have the proper temperament and philosophy of life for such work. By that I mean that the therapist must be patient, modest, and a perceptive listener, rather than a talker and advice-giver. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#conversation #disciplined #distressed #engaging #fellow

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

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biography #only #psychology

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 know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#feminism #hate #love #marriage #married-life