#psych

I have to return some videotapes ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#bale #bret #christian #easton #ellis

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small. ↗

— E. Lockhart

#humor #psychotherapy #sanity #humor

Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #clever #cognition #cognitive #cognitive-psychology

Don't normal people run in the rain? Even abnormal people, most of them anyway, the only people I can think of who walk in the rain are tree buffers, bag ladies, and total psychos. ↗

— Lisa O'Donnell

#rain #death

As the soil of a garden is richer and as the harvest of the garden bears healthier nourishment from the decay of leaf matter and banana peel and egg shell and human hair and chicken bone and fireplace ash, so the accumulation of death in teh ground of a city implants therein energies and powers. ↗

— Tim Gilmore

#history #paranormal #parapsychology #death

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology. ↗

— Stanley Smith Stevens

#century #digest #mid #psychology #state

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either. ↗

— John Irving

#background #damn #either #freud #him

You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#body #cards #dealt #ferociously #first

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. ↗

— Richard King

#deeper #exists #information #level #makeup

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#believe #foreign #foreign policy #policy #psychiatry