every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern…

“A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too easily. You…

— Lawrence Durrell

“He's as bad as my mother. Maybe worse. He's a market-research consultant. He studies people's facial expressions to see how they feel about commercials…

— Natalie Standiford

“Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta's office. That's what they do when Alice is…

— Alice Jamieson

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a…

— Theodore Dalrymple

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

“It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To…

— Kamand Kojouri

With wives, men hide behind the air of bravado, which is basically a defence mechanism, I think. Clever creatures, women. Very clever.

— Les Dawson

“Her jaundiced eyes became yellower when she realized she's been a victim of (mis)information. She couldn't go back. Some defence mechanism.”

— Rahul Tushar

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools…

— Rollo May

We are not here to give challenges to anyone, but we will also not take challenges casually. Our defence mechanisms would be the best…

— Narendra Modi

“When one looks at the numbers, the situation becomes even more perplexing. The effect of lambda grows steadily with respect to the familiar Newtonian…

— John D. Barrow

“To defend ourselves from this threat, and to sustain our peace of mind, we make use of a variety of ego-defence mechanisms, particularly repression,…

— Anthony Stevens

“You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person. There is no…

— Jake Wood

“The second sort was waking up alone. That was characterised by an awareness that he was alone in bed, alone in life, alone in…

— Jo Nesbø

When I talk about my childhood I used to say it as if it was scripted and I'd make jokes because it was a…

— Kerry Katona