"There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere."
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"Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition."
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"It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats"
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"I think politics come out of psychology."
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"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."
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"But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points."
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"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."
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"In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry."
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"Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves."
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"A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology."
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"Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother"
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"One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty."
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"[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will."
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"It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man."
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"The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology."
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"Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind."
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"The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest."
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"I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?"
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"I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it"
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