#psychology

Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#psychology #psycopaths #humor

Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. ↗

— Theodore Kaczynski

#depression #drugs #pharmaceuticals #psychiatry #psychology

Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée ↗

— Jean Piaget

#thoughts #intelligence

Anxiety and desire are two, often conflicting, orientations to the unknown. Both are tilted toward the future. Desire implies a willingness, or a need, to engage this unknown, while anxiety suggests a fear of it. Desire takes one out of oneself, into the possibility or relationship, but it also takes one deeper into oneself. Anxiety turns one back on oneself, but only onto the self that is already known. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#desire #psychology #relationships #sexuality #spirituality

Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one. ↗

— P.D. James

#mask #mystery #psychology #secret #life

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life

At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#emotion #meaning #memory #neuropsychology #life

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#daylight #individuation #maturity #philosophy-of-life #psychology

In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand. ↗

— Agnes Kamara-umunna

#psychology #reconciliation #life

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#psychology #society #life