Psychologist Quotes

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.
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.
When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.
Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
History seems to be so clumsy.
I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.
Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.
Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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