quotations about psychology
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.
CARL JUNG
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Factors Determining Human Behavior
Compared to law, psychology is, chronologically speaking, entering its adulthood, and given a number of important differences between the two disciplines, it comes as no surprise that tension and conflict between them persists.
ANDREAS KAPARDIS
Psycholody and Law: A Critical Introduction
The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.
NAOMI WEISSTEIN
"Kinder, Kuche, Kirche as Scientific Law"
Despite the burgeoning technologies in the field of "helping", on many levels psychotherapy is still a crapshoot. Some of the goal of training, I think, is to help students accept that fact. The work is part science, part art, and part luck. Learning to tolerate the anxiety inherent in that recipe is critical for any clinician.
MARTHA MANNING
Undercurrents
The field of psychology is in a state of crisis. We are no closer now to understanding the most fundamental problems of psychology than we were when psychology became a science a hundred years ago. Each of us is aware of being a unique "self", different from other people and the world around us. But the nature of the "self", which is central to all psychology, has no physiological basis in any contemporary theory and continues to elude us. The concept of "mind" is as perplexing as ever ... There is a profusion of little theories -- theories of vision, pain, behaviour-modification, and so forth -- but no broad unifying concepts.
RONALD MELZACK
attributed, Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness