Authentic self Quote by Dr. Kristen Lee

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

— Celia Green

“The first time the extent of this problem was obvious to me was when I was hanging out with a small group of people…

— Simone Collins

“Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.”

— Wolfgang Köhler

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary…

— Ruth Benedict

“Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.”

— Thomas Scheff

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

— Bertrand Russell

For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But…

— Jonah Lehrer

It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were…

— Martin Seligman

“The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences;…

— Bryce Courtenay

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

— Ruth Rendell

“Professor A. H. Maslow , for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to conclude that…

— Colin Wilson