Reads tagged with “psychology”
Reason and Emotion: Scottish Philosopher John Macmurray on the Key to Wholeness and the Fundaments of a Fulfilling Life
“The emotional life is not simply a part or an aspect of human life. It is not, as we so often think, subordinate, or subsidiary to the mind. It is the core and essence of human life. The intellect arises out of it, is rooted in it, draws its nourishment and sustenance from it.”
The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
“We are never simply seeing what’s ‘really there,’ stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions.”
Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions
“This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it.”
A Taste of How It Feels to Be Free: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on Our Inner Conflicts, the Psychology of Hopelessness, and the Path to Wholeness
“The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs. It can be approximated only to the extent that conflicts are resolved.”
The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Paradox of Avoidance
The psychological machinery of our commonest coping mechanism for the terror of hurt, rejection, and abandonment.
An Antidote to the Anxiety About Imperfection: Parenting Advice from Mister Rogers
“It’s part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance and ultimate understanding — and often far short.”
Between Matter and Spirit: Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis on the Substance of What We Are
“We are carriers of spirit… into a future unknown, unknowable, and in continual creation.”
Kierkegaard on the Value of Despair
“To despair over oneself, in despair to want to be rid of oneself, is the formula for all despair.”
The Delicate Art of Connection: William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships
“Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer.”
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