Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in going. Like his predecessor, the man of the market economy, he understands morality as that which is conducive...

There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to...

…it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told you we all are a little crazy?

Dissociation is the ultimate form of human response to chronic developmental stress, because patients with dissociative disorders report the highest frequency of childhood abuse and/or neglect among all psychiatric disorders. The cardinal feature of dissociation...

Wilhelm Reich identified ‘armor’ as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, ‘deadness’. Functionally...

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”Aristotle

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trendis statism. Philosophically, the goal is theobliteration of reason;psychologically, it is theerosion of ambition.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there...

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die.

Seven Rules Formulated for Teaching Arithmetic:1) Consider the situation the pupils faces.2) Consider the response you wish to connect with.3) Form the bond; do not expect it to come by miracle.4) Other things being equal,...

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows.

Socrates made people face their hypocrisy. He had to die.

When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably...

Davranışı yönlendiren itici güçleri bilirsek, yalnızca şimdiki zamanda gerçekleştirilen davranışı anlamakla kalmayız, bir kişinin değiştirilmiş koşullar altında nasıl davranabileceği konusunda da akla uygun varsayımlarda bulunabiliriz.

The archetypal image of the redeemer serpent is certainly placed here in opposition to the serpents of evil that battle with it. But why do they both have the same form if there is only...

I want to open a broken marriage repair shop. I’m not a counselor or psychologist, but I am a fan of the magical bonding that occurs between two people when duct tape binds them together...

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period...

…it was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person’s real experiences.

But insight doesn’t necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the...

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic...

Theories without data are like daydreams.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is–and a woman too, I guess.

Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren’t sins. The sin was not to learn from them.

It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a...

For the most part, “naturals” are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing...

It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through these times, you have to be careful not to lose yourself in the...

Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one’s own identity. Patients who report histories of childhood trauma characteristically describe themes of ongoing inner struggle regarding...

In the 1980s, research on post traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans was regarded as important, noble, and useful. When the same researchers looked at the same problem in children who had been sexually abused,...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new...

A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.

The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.

Knowledge is responsibility, which is why people resist knowledge.

Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.The Nature of Emotions (2001)

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

Ego is like an antivirus which eventually takes unwanted control of the computer itself.

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no matter how large or how small— is a direct expression of a man’s personality, and bears the...

It is time to climb the mountains of our mind