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Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

Our balanced budget has an important psychological function. It is a signal that we can't continue to constantly take on debt.

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the person really feels understood. That matters often even more than the technique.

The "biggest" poems I ever made are based on the psychological principal of the "Johari Window:" what the self freely shares with others; what the self hides from others; what others hide from the self; and what is unknown to the self and others.

The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

The citizen does not so much vote for a candidate as make a psychological purchase of him.

The power of sound to put an audience in a certain psychological state is vastly undervalued. And the more you know about music and harmony, the more you can do with that.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.

There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.

There's not a whole lot of similarity between the two societies, Russian and American. There are similarities behind psychological forces. One thing we can learn is that things can change pretty fast. And this idea that we know who we are and that things can only get so bad in this country - that's wrong.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange.

We recognize that stare decisis embodies an important social policy that represents an element of continuity in law and is rooted in the psychological need to satisfy reasonable expectations.

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.

What makes Jessica Jones series so unique is that it really is an allegory for many different types of abuse, whether it be sexual abuse, physical abuse, or psychological abuse. That's what makes this such an incredibly bold show.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really...motivated by psychological disturbance.

You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

You should not take the content of your intuitive response as evidence until you have submitted your psychological reaction to what I call cognitive psychotherapy. You should do what you can to learn as much as possible about the origin of your reaction.

Active participation is an engaging exchange of information.

Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.

After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society than has ever been seen in human history.