Psychologist Quotes

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.
Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine.
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
Anatomy is destiny.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
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