4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

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.

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.

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

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.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.