psychology

The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of them__hey all pitched their arguments against the power of the psychiatric establishment. They argued that the psychiatric diagnosis is scientifically meaningless. It is a way of labeling undesirable behaviour, under the guise of medical intervention. Those who are diagnosed ill are subjected to treatment which is a violation of human rights and dignity. The situation amounts to psychiatry having a mandate to declare some citizens unfit to live in an __rdinary_ community. It claims to cure but the supposed beneficiaries of that cure are often held in hospitals against their will. Within a structure like this it is impossible to understand the real nature of mental suffering and it is just as impossible to develop a coherent system of help.

The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds.

It's like the commercial, "Once you pop you can't stop."_ Once you pop a pill, you can't stop._ They have you hooked and they know it._ Like a drug dealer, they are so happy they have won another loyal customer._ Not loyal because you want to be, but loyal because your body is now completely dependent on them and their legal prescription "drugs."_

We don__ yet have a body of scientific knowledge about evil to be called a facet of psychology. Therefore, religious reasoning for actions will always be at the discretion of the psychologist, thus making them the judge and jury over what is delusion and what is a spiritual experience that has to be sedated.

If you do not have enemies on your way to the top, you are already a celebrated failure.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.

...the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control

Respect your needs and limitations as you work through your grief and begin to heal

Thus, the "memories" that people reported contained little information about the event they were trying to recall (the speaker's tone of voice) but were greatly influenced by the properties of the retrieval cue that we gave them (the positive or negative facial expression).

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.

Deception and self-deception are intimately intertwined. We fool ourselves in order to fool others, and we fool others in order to fool ourselves.

In what way did your parents screw up to make you the woman you are today?

Believe it or not, your body has nothing but unconditional love for you. The proof? Without any effort on your part, your heart is beating, your lungs are breathing, and the rhythm of life is graciously flowing through you every second of every day__nconditionally.

The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.

Memory is dynamic, it's alive.

Psychologists call these fully absorbing experiences flowstates, which were discovered and named by a world-famous psychologistwith the most unpronounceable surname I have ever encountered __ihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.