All Quotes

'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid that. The minute you have strings as your primary voice, the comparisons are always made.
‐‐ Christopher Young

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
‐‐ Bette Davis

Psychoanalysis has a degree of unreliability about it. You will never know whether you've found the truth. You may find a subjective truth, but you don't know.
‐‐ Eric Kandel

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
‐‐ Jacques Lacan

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
‐‐ Saul Bellow

Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.
‐‐ Arthur Laurents

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
‐‐ Bernard Berenson

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
‐‐ A. J. P. Taylor

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
‐‐ Karl Abraham

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
‐‐ Gene Fowler

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
‐‐ Karl Abraham

Psychographics speaks more to an attitude, a lifestyle.
‐‐ Richard Hayne

Psychological factors are critical in supporting immune function. If you suppress this psychological support by telling someone he's condemned to die, your words alone will have condemned him.
‐‐ Luc Montagnier

Psychological horror I've always appreciated, like 'Rosemary's Baby.' The slasher movies and the grotesque movies are the ones that I've really been off for a while.
‐‐ John Carroll Lynch

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.
‐‐ Andrew Pyper

Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objectively in this way, consciousness itself becomes something transcendent, becomes an event in that spatial world which appears, by virtue of consciousness, to be transcendent.
‐‐ Edmund Husserl

Psychologically, I'll always be a fat girl because that's what my character is built on. I always got a buzz out of people telling me I was ugly. I went out of my way to un-beautify myself. I didn't want anyone's approval.
‐‐ Alison Moyet

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
‐‐ Daniel Goldstein

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.
‐‐ Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
‐‐ Naomi Weisstein

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

Psychologists say don't expect your life to be happy all the time. I go with the philosophy that every day can't be tops. Life is not like that - it's up and down.
‐‐ Shirley Eaton

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.
‐‐ Claire Danes

Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.
‐‐ Louis Fischer

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.
‐‐ Laura Schlessinger

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
‐‐ Edward Thorndike

Psychology is a big part of sport that some people do not realise. But it is a skill you have to practice.
‐‐ Jade Jones

Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
‐‐ Martin Seligman

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.
‐‐ James J. Gibson

Psychology is the only necessary skill for running for president. Trump knows psychology.
‐‐ Scott Adams

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

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
‐‐ Edward Thorndike

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
‐‐ James Mark Baldwin

Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
‐‐ Daniel Goldstein

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.
‐‐ Marianne Moore

Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean?
‐‐ Annie Parisse

Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find them.
‐‐ Robert D. Hare

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.
‐‐ Robert D. Hare

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
‐‐ Thomas Szasz