372 quotes found
“All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.”
“Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of ea...”
“There is a tendency for humans to consciously see what they wish to see. They literally have difficulty seeing things with negative connotations while seeing with increasing ease items that are pos...”
“Basically, a case conceptualization is a method for understanding and explaining a client's concerns and for guiding the treatment process. It functions like a "bridge" to connect assessment and tr...”
“The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.”
“Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.”
“Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.”
“The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.”
“You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and they struggle to construct post hoc justifications f...”
“Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniou...”
“But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.”
“Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. Its sort of like my past is a...”
“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”
“There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have n...”
“He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.”
“A truly intelligent person is not one who can simply spout wordsand numbers; it is someone who can react intelligently to all theopportunities, simulations and problems provided by the environment....”
“Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.”
“There is another Brain Principle to go with First Things First: that ofLast Things Too. This states that, all other things being equal, you willrecall more easily the last things. Check your own me...”
“It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occ...”
“I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".”
