#psycho

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#acting #actress #became #fact #first

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#accepting #away #comes #complexes #contrary

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#aloud #consideration #inevitably #leads #life

I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#i #much #psychologist

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#end #killed #knew #naked #near

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic. ↗

— Lee Westwood

#bit #golf #golfers #much #people

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#homosexuality #i #i think #kind #middle

The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain scanners offer us unprecedented information about the structure and working of the brain. But don't forget that, once, wrapping a tape measure around the head was considered modern and sophisticated, and it's important not to fall into the same old traps. As we'll see in later chapters, although certain popular commentators make it seem effortlessly easy, the sheer complexity of the brain makes interpreting and understanding the meaning of any sex differences we find in the brain a very difficult task. But the first, and perhaps surprising, issue in sex differences research is that of knowing which differences are real and which, like the intially promising cephalic index, are flukes or spurious. ↗

— Cordelia Fine

#gender-equality #men #psychology #science #thought-provoking

Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how beautiful and amazingly intelligent emotions can be, and how powerfully they can solve problems for us. ↗

— António R. Damásio

#beauty

Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in the supernatural tale. 'There is no need today to resort to the devil [or to posthumous reverie] in order to speak of excessive sexual desire, and none to resort to vampires in order to designate the attraction exerted by corpses: psychoanalysis, and the literature which is directly or indirectly inspired by it, deal with these matters in undisguised terms. The themes of fantastic literature have become, literally, the very themes of the psychological investigations of the last fifty years. ↗

— Howard Kerr

#fantastic #fantasy #horror #psychological #psychology