Jean Piaget Quotes

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

I've never studied psychology.

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

I'd always been interested in psychology.

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.

I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.

The stereotype of psychotherapy portrayed in popular books and movies is lying on the couch and saying whatever comes into your mind, while a kindly psychoanalyst listens and nods knowingly from time to time. After years and years, something wonderful is supposed to happen.

If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

I think shrinks are interesting to write about because you get to see what the character chooses to reveal, and what behaviors or stances the character tries out on the shrink that might not be part of the character's make-up outside of that room. It's an emotional test-kitchen.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

When you show people good information, they make good decisions.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

Without medical records that he hasn't released, we can't know whether Gingrich may have inherited his mother's manic depression. Nevertheless, one observes in the former House Speaker certain symptoms - bouts of grandiosity, megalomania, irritability, racing thoughts, spending sprees - that go beyond the ordinary politician's normal narcissism.

There is time not only to see who has done what, but to speculate why.

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.

Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?