Psychology (Greek: Ψυχολογία, lit. "study of the mind", from ψυχή psykhē "breath, spirit, soul"; and -λογία, -logia "study of") is an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and often scientific, study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally, in addition or opposition to employing the scientific method, it also relies on symbolic...
Psychology
Works Written About This Topic
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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The Left Stuff: How the Left-Handed Have Survived and Thrived in a Right-Handed World
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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
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The Mismeasure of Man
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Brainstorms
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Metamagical Themas
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The Society of Mind
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The Ghost in the Machine
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Stumbling on Happiness
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Journals in this discipline:
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- American Imago
- Cultic Studies Review
- Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
- American Psychologist
- American Journal of Psychology
- Radical Psychology
- Psychological Bulletin
- The Journal of Psychology
- Children Youth and Environments Journal
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Quotations About This Subject:
- Idleness is the parent of psychology.
- When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.
- The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
- Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
- We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
- There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
- Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
- In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.
- Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.
- The intellect is always fooled by the heart.