Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Life itself still remains a very effective therapist"

Karen Horney, Psychologist

"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration"

Kurt Lewin, Psychologist

"You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity"

Nathaniel Branden, Psychologist

"Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause"

Nathaniel Branden, Psychologist

"Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss"

Nathaniel Branden, Psychologist

"Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge"

Fritz Perls, Psychologist

"Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn"

Nathaniel Branden, Psychologist

"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization"

Karen Horney, Psychologist

"Please, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"The forms of my awareness are richer than yours"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"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"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"The core of my personality consists of many selves"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, "If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in""

Theodor Reik, Psychologist

"The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love"

Theodor Reik, Psychologist

"We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death"

Theodor Reik, Psychologist

"Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which his parents, and which my mother's parents were very steeped in"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

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