Clinical Psychology Quotes

I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.

I'm getting my psychology degree with a focus on marriage and family therapy.

Early in my career, I was disappointed that psychoanalysis was not becoming more empirical, was not becoming more scientific. It was primarily concerned with individual patients. It wasn't trying to collect data from large groups of people who have been analyzed.

I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

If I had a whole other life, I'd be a psychiatrist.

At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, I started taking psychology courses. I was interested in the nature of the human mind, the structure itself, pathologies with which it is afflicted. I really intended to be a writer all along, but I needed to take a subject that I could make a living at, either teaching it or doing it.

My grandad, he has his doctorate in psychology.

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

I wish I had paid more attention in my psych class in college. I would've had a broader vocabulary to draw from.

I want to be a psychologist.

My background is in social work and psychotherapy.

Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

When I released my first record, I was really in the middle of having made the decision to follow the clinical psychology path, which is competitive, rigorous, and fairly conservative.

I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not treating patients.

I am a Professor of Psychology at Palo Alto University and a Research Psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

I received a Master's degree in 1991 in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

I loved the study of psychology. I didn't love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.