Psychopathology Quote by Anthony Storr Download Open image “It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.” — Anthony Storr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Psychopathology
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It's not that you make a psychopath. They are - more likely, they come out that way, and they show their stripes over time. — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
Part of being a psychopath is an ability to dissociate from one reality and create another one, completely. — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
What my research told me is that a psychopath cannot change. You're born like that. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal. — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
Psychopaths are not crazy; they are fully aware of what they do, and the consequences of those actions. — Hannibal Copy Share Image
“Here’s a simple reminder: not all psychopaths are criminals, and not all criminals are psychopaths. In fact, you may have an acquaintance who can… — T. Rivers, Clarence Copy Share Image
“Unlike people with other mental disorders, psychopaths are keenly aware of the impact that their behavior has on others. That’s half the fun for… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't… — Annie Parisse Copy Share Image
Psychopaths are social predators, and like all predators, they are looking for feeding grounds. Wherever you get power, prestige and money, you will find… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences,… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“[A]voidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioural disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
“We must bear in mind, however sadly, that psychopathology is no longer the exclusive preserve of the degenerate and perverse. The Congo, Vietnam, Biafra… — 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 unbearably unpleasant.… — 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 vastly complex… — 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 her when… — 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, is charged… — 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 the slave… — 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 psychopathology. — 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 psychopathology. Probably… — 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
