Quotes About Psychopathology

#1. It is indeed the truth of the traumatic experience that forms the center of its psychopathology; it is not a pathology of falsehood or displacement of meaning, but of history itself (p. 5)

Cathy Caruth

#2. What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

Abraham Maslow

#3. Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Alexander Cockburn

#4. It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

Anthony Storr

#5. Isolation leads to psychopathology. Isolated from the rest of nature, isolated from each other by walls of fear, isolated from our own bodies, and isolated most of all from our own horrifying experience, is it any wonder that we are all crazy?

Derrick Jensen

#6. Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon

Patrick Hennessey

#7. The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

J.G. Ballard

#8. A myopic focus on the proposed psychopathology of perpetrators, or on their alleged extraordinary personalities, tells us more about our own personal dreams of how we wish the world to work than it does about the reality of perpetrator behavior.

James Waller

#9. He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. Psychologist: "This, ah, is a new sort of, ah, psychopathology that we're only now beginning to, ah, understand. These, ah, super-serial killers have no, ah, 'type' but, ah, rather consider everyone to be their 'type.'"
Gramma: "Did you hear that? Your daddy's a superhero!

Barry Lyga

#11. The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

C. G. Jung

#12. The psychopath [or sociopath] makes a mockery not only of the truth but also of all authority and institutions. - Arnold Buss, M.D." Psychopathology

Jack Olsen

#13. When you strategize a relationship too much, like, "We're not gonna be public about it, and we're gonna say this in interviews," when you think it all out, I think that complicates the relationship and I think that's unfair for the relationship.

Taylor Swift

#14. All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the comission of public offence, when this can be proved at the same time, shall be punishable.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#15. I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

Guy Pearce

#16. Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules ... We don't fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.

Brent Weeks

#17. American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)

Alvin Dueck

#18. He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#19. The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#20. There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#21. People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

Jo Brand

#22. Being in music forever, I have good pitch, so I know when I'm singing in or out of tune. But the key to really good singing is just relaxing and thinking about what the song is.

John Tesh

#23. I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#24. Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#25. Permission Marketing is just like dating. It turns strangers into friends and friends into lifetime customers. Many of the rules of dating apply, and so do many of the benefits.

Seth Godin

#26. Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

Evan Davis

#27. Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#28. We just have to show up and pray. Some

Stormie O'martian

#29. The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

J.C. Ryle

#30. Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.

Malachy McCourt

#32. The named was born from the unnamed ... all being flows from non-being ... the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.

Laozi

#33. Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.

Elie Wiesel