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All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis. — Helen Suzman
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the… — Ian Mcewan
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence — Jack Kerouac
The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales,… — Jacques Lacan
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I… — Joan Didion
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the… — Karl Abraham
Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling… — Leonard Mlodinow
Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis.… — Marya Hornbacher
A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis… — Sigmund Freud
LSD was not a pharmacological agent generating exotic experiences by its interaction with the neurophysiological processes in the brain. This remarkable substance was clearly an… — Stanislav Grof
What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many… — David Duke
Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them. — Rajneesh
I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I… — Dan Chaon
I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them… — Peter Steele
I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's… — Charlize Theron
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis… — Eddie Izzard
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an… — Douglas MacArthur
Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions… — Thomas Szasz
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the… — Sam Taylor-Wood
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. — Jeanette Winterson
I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so… — Callum Keith Rennie
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out… — Jeanette Winterson
Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often… — William H. Gass

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