“We must bear in mind, however sadly, that psychopathology is no longer the exclusive preserve of the degenerate and perverse. The Congo,… — Ballard James G Copy Share Image
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is tempting when looking at the life of anyone who has committed suicide to read into the decision to die a… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The red balls told… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Mutation load has been proposed as a likely explanation for the persistence of common, heritable, and harmfulmental disorders like autism and schizophrenia.” — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society,… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be… — Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery: — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person becomes alienated from himself. For example,… — R.D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Among [Applewhite's] other teachings was the classic cult specialty of developing disdain for anyone outside of the Heaven's Gate commune. Applewhite flattered… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“We shall bear in linea, however sadly, that psychopathology is no longer the exclusive preserve of the degenerate and perverse. The Congo,… — Ballard James G Copy Share Image
“Two features in his personality make-up stand out as particularly pathological. The first is his ‘paranoid’ orientation toward the world. He is… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“All our hope rests upon the possibility of a change of the laws which concern it, so that only rape or the… — Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
For the sake of my children and grandchildren, I hope that the human talent for self-destruction can be successfully controlled, or at… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
