Famous quotes by Psychologists

"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman"

William Moulton Marston, Psychologist

"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken"

William Moulton Marston, Psychologist

"Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives"

William Moulton Marston, Psychologist

"Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"The reason of the close concurrence between the individual's progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"Have you considered that if you don't make waves, nobody, including yourself, will know that you are alive?"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"Psychology, more than any other science, has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

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