The love and war in the previous injunctions are of the nature of sport, where one respects, and learns from the opponent, but never interferes with him, outside the actual game. To seek to dominate...

The first thing you need to know if you are a survivor is that parts of you have probably been trained to create a variety of symptoms and behaviours. Abusers actually train child parts to...

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: “What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few...

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It’s as if I’m standing at the top of the twenty-first century looking downwards to 2000. Future centuries float...

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud. ”—Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung in a 1919 address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than we would like to believe. We may be adults, chronologically and physically, but...

You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identified with. That’s the peace of God. The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am...

We are a biological species arising from Earth’s biosphere as one adapted species among many; and however splendid our languages and cultures, however rich and subtle our minds, however vast our creative powers, the mental...

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

The reason we have such a difficult time losing weight permanently is not because we are making bad choices, but because we are not stopping our automatic subconscious programmed behaviors in their tracks.

The primary treatment modality for DID is individual outpatient psychotherapy.Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision

People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don’t make close friends is because they’re too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.

Synchronicity – the sense of significance beyond chance

İnsanoğlunun bilinçlilik için ödediği bedel, güvensizliktir. Bu güvensizliği kaldırabilmek için, insansal koşulun farkında olmak ve onu kabullenmek, başarıya ulaşacağı garantisinden yoksun olmasına karşın, başarısızlığa ulaşmayacağını ummak durumundadır. Kesinlikten yoksundur, emin değildir; bir tek kesin öngörüde...

I’ll flick a penny to the dirt, and if I see one on the ground I won’t pick it up. So why is .99 cents so much sexier than a dollar?

There is always a day of reckoning.” The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits—ourselves, or to use an old fashioned word for...

Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée

Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics. they can be lost forever. It’s sort of like my past is an unfinished...

There are as many life missions as there are people. We are all unique. We are all important.

The subconscious mind is the guiding force for your entire life.

Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betrayal and hypocrisy forgotten (repressed) very quickly. But the computer in your subconscious mind forgets nothing. It records...

People today will have you believing life is a blank slate upon which you can write anything at all–this is poetic, even romantic. Unfortunately, it’s also a lie, because life exists in, is bound by,...

We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives would exactly mirror our image of ourselves. Our lies about what is really happening in our lives are...

But I was beginning to feel like it all fit together, the same way everything in the bowl ends up in the bisquits, as Amma would say.

The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.—Psychotherapist from Type 1...

tells” you but I just don’t buy that. The beauty of it is that you are here today & you can be thankful & enjoy all the life that you have ahead of you. And...

Sometimes, if you want to change a man’s mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought...

Psychologists have devised some ingenious ways to help unpack the human “now.” Consider how we run those jerky movie frames together into a smooth and continuous stream. This is known as the “phi phenomenon.” The...

I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think...

I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more ‘Fruit Cakes’ for Christmas Please

The three most important words in a relationship are not, ‘I love you,’ but, ‘Tell me more.

There’s no weakness as great as false strength.

Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual way of speaking than to what she was saying. This use of the singular form, stripped of...

Our outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner male and female sides. Our outer relationships with a man or a woman are a possibility to understand our own...

A bulimic person’s shame may lead her to try to hide not only her eating-disorder behaviors but also her basic needs and yearnings. She may wish that her needs and desires did not exist and...

Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the balance of power between parents...

inherited by the world,interconnected by the youth;Mind,Body,Spirit.Believe in it

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex’s experience of powerlessness.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of understanding mirror neurons and their function. They may well be central to social learning, imitation, and the cultural transmission of skills and attitudes—perhaps even of the pressed-together...

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it’s the smell of schizophrenia.

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

Being well regulated in relatedness is the deeply gratifying state that people seek ceaselessly in romance, religions, and cults; in husbands and wives, pets, softball teams, bowling leagues, and a thousand other features of human...

How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind motionless, were once innocuous mere threads.” -Mehul.M

Once, in a three-day taping that included several sadists, the material was so overwhelming that both the film crew and I got sick – I with a sinus infection, and the entire film crew with...

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.