Psychologist Quotes

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.
Our kind of research might be one of the first projects to go. Our work is not urgent; it's not the cure for cancer or Alzheimer's. But we have a way of understanding human life that you can't get anywhere else, and it lays the foundation for important, actionable things.
People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.
Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.
Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.
Putting labels on entire groups of people makes things much simpler. If all New Yorkers are pushy, or all politicians are dishonest, we don't have to do the hard work of figuring out who's who.
Sibling relationships have been underemphasised in learning about child development.
The fact remains that many of the most creative and innovative hypotheses that are eventually verified by empirical research are born in the consulting room out of practitioners' work with individual patients.
The good life is built with good relationships.
We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders.
When it comes to health care policy, we keep failing to take seriously the value of human relationships. The cost of this oversight is staggering.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.
Freedom always deals with 'the possible'; this gives freedom its great flexibility, its fascination, and its dangers.
Freedom is the possibility of development, of enhancement of one's life - or the possibility of withdrawing, shutting oneself up, denying and stultifying one's growth.
Human dignity is based upon freedom, and freedom upon human dignity. The one presupposes the other.
I believe that the therapist's function should be to help people become free to be aware of and to experience their possibilities.
I have long believed that love and will are interdependent and belong together. Both are conjunctive processes of being - a reaching out to influence others, molding, forming, creating the consciousness of the other.
I make no apologies in admitting that I take very seriously the dehumanizing dangers in our tendency in modern science to make man over into the image of the machine, into the image of the techniques by which we study him.
If we are to achieve freedom, we must do so with a daring and a profundity that refuse to flinch at engaging our destiny.
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