#psycho

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner ↗

— Louise Penny

#hunters #psychotic #shot #family

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed. ↗

— Anna Freud

#continually #emphasizes #everything #fixed #how

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#bed #between #character #connection #intimate

I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it. ↗

— Fred Frith

#associations #because #habits #i #i write

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists. ↗

— Andy Murray

#lot #psychologists #sports #use

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

#cannot #disregarded #does #intuition #itself

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#disguise #entirely #faculty #man #moral

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#builds #castle #collects #lives #man

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#believe #cause #either #else #normal