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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ~Author unknown, quoted from The American Legion, 2002
But I don't want to be a subconsciousness! I want to be myself... ~Ronald A. Knox, Other Eyes Than Ours, 1926
Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? ~Michael Torke, michaeltorke.com
...psycho-analysis — that is... confession without absolution. ~G. K. Chesterton
Under exceptional conditions, exceptional flotsam and jetsam is tossed up into Consciousness from the
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. ~Marvin Dunnette
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
Psychology has once again proved itself the doofus of the sciences. ~Big Bang Theory, "The Intimacy Acceleration," written by Steven Molaro, Jim Reynolds, and Steve Holland [S8, E16, 2015, Sheldon]
The reflex is physiology below the collar button. Psychology is physiology above the collar button. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
I grant that Freud was one of the most ingenious men who ever lived, but I have no more use for his system than I have for Paley's watch — a metaphor for the universe, wound up in the beginning, then ticking away for billions of years. ~Saul Bellow, The Actual, 1997
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. ~Carl Jung (1875–1961)
But how I analyze myself... I hate people who go probing around in their own minds, bringing the results of their excavations to be examined by their bored friends. Don't bother about me, Rose. I'll get through some way. Probably by letting the gods do it for me. ~Dorothy Thompson, letter to Rose Wilder Lane, 1921, edited by William V. Holtz
I was discovering that if you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves. ~Gabrielle Roth
What have we here? A human mind, turned wrong side out. If we only knew the meaning of it — how a psychiatrist would love it! Everything means something, something means anything, everything means anything — all that sort of thing. ~Cid Ricketts Sumner, Tammy Out of Time, 1958
Brain storms, bah! It is my belief that the alienists for the defense are crazier than the defendant, whose insanity they profess to establish. ~Otto E. A. Schmidt, "The Death Clinic," in Weird Tales: The Unique Magazine, 1924
Anger turned inward is depression. Anger turned sideways is Hawkeye. ~M*A*S*H, "Dear Sigmund," 1976, written by Alan Alda [S5, E7, Sidney Freedman
They say a psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ~Joey Adams
How easy Psychology has made it for us to dismiss the perplexing mystery with a label which assigns it a place in the list of common aberrations. ~Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961), diary, 1951, translated from the Swedish by Leif Sjöberg and W. H. Auden, Markings, 1964
It is generally admitted that the human mind was first discovered about four years ago by a brilliant writer in one of the Sunday journals. His article "Have We a Subconscious Ego?" was immediately followed by a striking discussion under the title "Are We Top Side Up?" This brought forth a whole series of popular articles and books under such titles as Willing and Being, How to Think, Existence as a Mode of Thought, The Super Self, and such special technical studies as The Mentality of the Hen and the Thought Process of the Potato.
This movement, once started, has spread in every direction. All our best magazines are now full of mind. In every direction one sees references to psychoanalysis, auto-suggestion, hypnosis, hypnoosis, psychiatry, inebriety, and things never thought of a little while ago. Will power is being openly sold by correspondence at about fifty cents a kilowatt. College professors of psychology are wearing overcoats lined with fur, and riding in little coupé cars like doctors. The poor are studying the psychology of wealth, and the rich are studying the psychology of poverty.
Everybody's mind is now analyzed. People who used to be content with the humblest of plain thinking, or with none at all, now resolve themselves into "reflexes" and "complexes" and "impulses." Some of our brightest people are kleptomaniacs, paranoiacs, agoraphobists, and dolomites. A lot of our best friends turn out to be subnormal and not worth knowing... A lot of our criminals turn out not to be criminals at all, but merely to have a reaction for another person's money. ~Stephen Leacock, "The Human Mind Up To Date — The Mind Wave," The Garden of Folly, 1924
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than any other method. But who has ever claimed that psychoanalysis should be used 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 if you had robbed the unconscious of something. So when the spirit comes forth bringing something out of the eternal structure of the world, then the spirit itself, being that piece of the world which now enters visibility, is wounded. The spirit is the wound and the message. ~C. G. Jung, 1936, from the Nietzsche's Zarathustra seminar
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, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
Dost thou not, then, Prometheus, know this proverb, that "Words are the physicians of a mind diseased"? ~Aeschylus
If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presupposes a whole world-laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology. ~D. H. Lawrence, St. Mawr, 1925
There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963
I need one of those baby monitors for my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about. ~Steven Wright
Sure you can psychoanalyze! But as Baehr used to say, why bother to sort garbage? ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. We must beware of thinking of good and evil as absolute opposites. ~C. G. Jung
Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A bird just lighted on a branch behind me. Now he's on the lawn, and I see he is a robin. Does it matter what kind of bird he is? I like seeing him in the reflection, seeing something behind me instead of always in front of me. There is a Bates-Huxley eye-training experiment in which you close your eyes and look at a spot at the base of your skull, where it changes to neck. It's very releasing. When I do it, I realize how my eyes have been pushing forward forward forward. Reversals are a part of Gestalt. Breaking some of the chains. ~Barry Fox Stevens (1902–1985), Don't Push the River (it flows by itself), 1970
Psychiatry is at present a significantly descriptive and classificatory science which is still more somatically than psychologically oriented, and which lacks possibilities for explaining observed phenomena. But psychoanalysis is not in opposition to psychiatry, as one might be led to believe by the almost unanimous behaviour of psychiatrists. ~Sigmund Freud
Psychology doesn't address the soul — that's something else — but, this is a start. ~The Sopranos, "The Sopranos," 1999, written by David Chase [S1, E1, Carmela Soprano
His perversion ran like a red thread through his entire mental organization.... unlimited indulgence and absence of responsibility are competent to make sexual monsters out of mere voluptuaries. ~E.C. Spitzka, "The Whitechapel Murders: Their Medico-Legal and Historical Aspects" (remarks made in discussing Mr. Austin Abbott's paper on the same subject before the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, New York), in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, December 1888
It seems a pity that Psychology should have destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. It is a natural enough catastrophe; for the very act of changing it from a matter of common sense to a matter of scientific enquiry, labelled and separated as a science, involves a change which nobody has adequately noted. It is simply the change from looking at a thing from the inside to looking at it from the outside. If psychology is a thing like geology or biology or conchology or ornithology, it tends to be approached in the same external way as these other sciences. The geologist had the duty of splitting the rocks or digging up the fossils; but nobody supposed that the geologist felt like a fossil, or could give us any notion of what a rock would feel like, if it felt anything at all. Now that the psychologist has been given the exclusive duty of splitting the skull and digging up the subconsciousness, he naturally tends to think of that subconscious stratification as something as sealed up and secret as the deepest stratification of the rocks. In a sense, this science is the opposite of every other sort of science; for it does not teach us that we may know what we did not know, but rather, if anything, that we do not know what we thought we did know. ~G. K. Chesterton
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ~Lord Robert Webb-Johnstone, as quoted in Maurice B. Strauss, Familiar Medical Quotations, 1968
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1963 [depression
The purpose of psychology is to give us wholly novel ideas about the things that we know best... To build up a
...the new life of psychiatry is with us... ~Sigmund Freud, 1907
A technique we practice at our cost, psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves. ~E. M. Cioran, translated by Richard Howard
I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much? ~Jason Love
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is — a vice? ~Friedrich Nietzsche ["Idleness is the beginning of all vices." ~German proverb
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of "progress," but only by viewing history as a neurosis. ~Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death
I notice that I feel like making a cup of tea. This is not avoidance!... Sure I avoid. Lots of times I avoid. There are good and bad avoidances, and sometimes going blank is not avoidance. ~Barry Fox Stevens (1902–1985), Don't Push the River (it flows by itself), 1970
but the science bears out
my catastrophic thinking
~Terri Guillemets, "CBT," 2023
This psychiatry shit, apparently what you're feeling is not what you're feeling and what you're not feeling is your real agenda. ~Frank Renzulli, The Sopranos, "Pax Soprana," original airdate 14 February 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano
Activity is good, almost without reservation, for the body and the soul. A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. ~Geoffrey Norman, in Esquire, 1979
I shall go down and be very kind to everyone. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression. ~Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948
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