Psychological Disorder Quotes

#1. And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.

Karl Marlantes

#2. The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Judith Lewis Herman

#3. Optimism is a psychological disorder exhibited by those out of touch with reality

Oliver Pell

#4. The capacity for dissociation enables the young child to exercise their innate life-sustaining need for attachment in spite of the fact that principal attachment figures are also principal abusers.

Warwick Middleton

#5. Sorry," she said. "I have a psychological disorder that prevents me from keeping thoughts inside my head where they belong.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#6. Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

Delmore Schwartz

#7. Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment (Brett, 1996; Ross, 2000).

Rachel E. Goldsmith

#8. If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.

Paul Bloom

#9. Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

Emily Yoffe

#10. Schizophrenia is without a doubt the most dreaded psychological disorder. If depression is the common cold of psychological disorders, schizophrenia is the cancer." The cancer.

Heather Sellers

#11. Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

Stephanie S. Covington

#12. Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor ...

Andrew Lo

#13. The departed exist on one plane, and the human race exists on another, and somehow - whether by freak accident, divine intervention, or psychological disorder - I exist on both. A

Darynda Jones

#14. Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of gender distinctions in society.

Charles W. Socarides