Quotes about american-psychologist
american-psychologist answer fast kinds wrong
Being fast and not very spatial doesn't make you any better in spatial kinds of things; you probably just get the wrong answer more quickly. Howard Gardner
american-psychologist equal headaches psychiatry work wrong
If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know. Harry Stack Sullivan
american-psychologist came client love sort week
I just had a client this week who came to me after 10 years of Freudian therapy. He's in love with his analyst, and she is sort of in love with him. Albert Ellis
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In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? Carl Rogers
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer
american-psychologist fact greatest understanding willing
The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
american-psychologist possesses power
The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
american-psychologist form
The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella). Jonathan Kellerman
american-psychologist both early interest medicine mind somewhat vague
And so I had an early but somewhat vague interest in both medicine and in what was to become, in my mind and in my work, psychiatry. Robert Jay Lifton
american-psychologist education learnt survives
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. B. F. Skinner
american-psychologist coming emergence feels hope people readers situations
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
american-psychologist good possible principal remain writers
That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.
american-psychologist grade great imaginary paid school terms trouble
That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right.
american-psychologist possess potent
You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
american-psychologist happiness
You can be right or you can be happy.
american-psychologist others rather
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
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Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense. Carol Gilligan
american-psychologist disorders longer people severe treat
The psychotics, naturally, don't think straight. Severe personality disorders take much longer to treat than people who are neurotic.
american-psychologist costs group hour individual nonprofit
We're a nonprofit organization, and it usually costs $100 an hour for individual therapy. Participating in a group costs $120 a month.
american-psychologist chunks suppose tend ways
We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.
american-psychologist less logical people prone scientific teach therefore thinking
We teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.
american-psychologist believe good
Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
american-psychologist chose create found helped historical people study
What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.
american-psychologist bombarded carry images influences whatever
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.
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My first formal research, published in 1953, was on trying to understand the dynamics of prejudice, of interaction between blacks and Puerto Ricans. Philip Zimbardo
american-psychologist attending city college father particular society
My father in particular was a progressive person, a person who made his way in this society by attending the City College of New York.
american-psychologist carve lives
We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens. James Hillman
american-psychologist children happiness imaginary living
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Thomas Szasz
american-psychologist telling
Sure! Why should any experts be the arbiters... That's like telling someone they can't be a vegetarian.
american-psychologist area
In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.
american-psychologist fulfill later needs perhaps yes
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no. William Glasser
american-psychologist business determines given powerless whether
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
american-psychologist best beyond business conductors great leaders magic notes reach
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.