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| A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~ Author Unknown |
| [Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ~ Karen Horney, |
| Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. ~ Douglas Busch |
| Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ~ Michael Torke |
| Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. ~ Mark Epstein |
| Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. ~ G.K. Chesterton |
| The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F’s": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating. ~ Unknown psychology professor |
| There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. ~ Thomas Szasz |
| Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. ~ Vladimir Nabokov |
| People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. ~ Wilhelm Stekel |
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| A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~ Paul Dudley White |
| The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ~ Carl Jung |
| I don’t go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. ~ Peter O’Toole |
| But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ~ Alan Watts |
| The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. ~ Sigmund Freud |
| If you just set people in motion they’ll heal themselves. ~ Gabrielle Roth |
| A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ~ Joey Adams |
| There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. ~ C.G. Jung |
| There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~ Ben Williams |
| Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. ~ Carl G. Jung |
| Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it’s made you a mess, but you won’t die from it. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ~ Aeschylus |
| The sun is nature’s Prozac. ~ Astrid Alauda |
| Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It’s the same with the mind. ~ Moses R. Kaufman |
| I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. ~ James Thurber |
| Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ~ Mason Cooley |
| The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. ~ Sigmund Freud |
| Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage? ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. ~ Robert Brault |