#psychology

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#applicable #case #exclusively #involve #languages

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#acts #deals #experiencing #life #make

A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never seen him before, but from the first moment that I looked at him I took his measure, almost by intuition. He was, I suppose, honest enough -- I have always granted him that, bitterly as I have felt toward him. It wasn't his fault that he lacked red blood in his brain, or that he had formed the habit, from long association with abnormal phenomena, of regarding all life as a disease. He was the sort of physician -- every nurse will understand what I mean -- who deals instinctively with groups instead of with individuals. He was long and solemn and very round in the face; and I hadn't talked to him ten minutes before I knew he had been educated in Germany, and that he had learned over there to treat every emotion as a pathological manifestation. I used to wonder what he got out of life -- what any one got out of life who had analyzed away everything except the bare structure. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#analysis #pathology #psychiatrist #psychiatry #psychologist

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life-lesson #psychology #life

You don't think your way to a new way of living. You live your way to a new way of thinking. ↗

— David Schnarch

#love

God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#religion

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. ↗

— William James

#mental-illness

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#hope #mental-health #mental-illness #philosophy #psychology

We are gods with anuses. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#human-condition #humor #philosofy #psychology #religion