{"quotes":[{"text":"To embrace love, we risk heartbreak. To resist love, we risk emptiness.","author":"Jennifer Lane","tags":["connection","dr-valentine","emptiness","heartbreak","love","psychologist","psychology","sport-psychologist","therapy"],"id":35480,"author_id":"Jennifer+Lane"},{"text":"So on a scale of one to Adele, how bad was this breakup?","author":"Jennifer Lane","tags":["breakup","college","new-adult","politics","president","psychologist","romance","sports","sports-romance","therapy","therapy-session","university"],"id":46134,"author_id":"Jennifer+Lane"},{"text":"They thought more before nine a.M. Than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["bad-memories","broken-home","cherry-pie","childhood","childhood-memories","divorce","funny","iconoclast","ironic","irony","logic","memories","over-thinking","patriotism","psychologist","psychology","simplicity","symbolism","the-mind","thoughts"],"id":47006,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"As a clinical psychologist, I am regularly confronted with the brutal truth that we are all lie.","author":"Cortney S. Warren","tags":["confront","lie","psychologist","truth"],"id":176890,"author_id":"Cortney+S.+Warren"},{"text":"Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...","author":"Asa Don Brown","tags":["childhood","psychologist","psychology","ptsd","recovery","research","resiliency","trauma"],"id":181602,"author_id":"Asa+Don+Brown"},{"text":"Of course, I should have known the kids would pop out in the atmosphere of Roberta's office. That's what they do when Alice is under stress. They see a gap in the space-time continuum and slip through like beams of light through a prism changing form and direction. We had got into the habit in recent weeks of starting our sessions with that marble and stick game called Ker-Plunk, which Billy liked. There were times when I caught myself entering the office with a teddy that Samuel had taken from the toy cupboard outside. Roberta told me that on a couple of occasions I had shot her with the plastic gun and once, as Samuel, I had climbed down from the high-tech chairs, rolled into a ball in the corner and just cried. 'This is embarrassing,' I admitted. 'It doesn't have to be.''It doesn't have to be, but it is,' I said.The thing is. I never knew when the 'others' were going to come out. I only discovered that one had been out when I lost time or found myself in the midst of some wacky occupation — finger-painting like a five-year-old, cutting my arms, wandering from shops with unwanted, unpaid-for clutter.In her reserved way, Roberta described the kids as an elaborate defence mechanism. As a child, I had blocked out my memories in order not to dwell on anything painful or uncertain. Even as a teenager, I had allowed the bizarre and terrifying to seem normal because the alternative would have upset the fiction of my loving little nuclear family.I made a mental note to look up defence mechanisms, something we had touched on in psychology.","author":"Alice Jamieson","tags":["alter-personalities","alters","dissociation","dissociative","dissociative-identity-disorder","embarrassment","mental-health","mental-illness","multiple-personality-disorder","psychologist","psychology","self-stigma","split-personality","stigma","therapist","therapy"],"id":193974,"author_id":"Alice+Jamieson"},{"text":"Life. Life is a show. It's up to you how to make your own story, do your own show and how to live your show you are on. You choose who you need to meet, where you should have your scenes or which scenes you want to do. How awesome your mind can do right?","author":"Diana Rose Morcilla","tags":["art","artist","awesome","blogger","direct","dreams","happy-positivity","hope","inspirational","inspire","lenka","life","loa","manifest","mind","positivity","psychologist","psychology","quote","quotes","show","the-secret","think","visualize"],"id":203577,"author_id":"Diana+Rose+Morcilla"},{"text":"Roger said, 'I don't know about having a shrink around all the time. Are you analyzing me right now?'Sophie rolled her eyes. 'How original. No, I'm not analyzing you. It'd take a whole team of shrinks to figure out your crazy ass, and I simply don't have the time or energy.","author":"Jennifer Lane","tags":["humor","new-job","psychologist","romance","romantic-suspense","with-good-behavior"],"id":205943,"author_id":"Jennifer+Lane"},{"text":"Some of the most evil human beings in the world are psychiatrists. Not all psychiatrists. Some psychiatrists are selfless, caring people who really want to help. But the sad truth is that in today's society, mental health isn't a science. It's an industry. Ritalin, Zoloft, Prozac, Lexapro, Resperidone, happy pills that are supposed to 'normalize' the behavior of our families, our colleagues, our friends - tell me that doesn't sound the least bit creepy! Mental health is subjective. To us, a little girl talking to her pretend friends instead of other children might just be harmless playing around. To a psychiatrist, it's a financial opportunity. Automatically, the kid could be swept up in a sea of labels. 'not talking to other kids? Okay, she's asocial!' or 'imaginary friends? Bingo, she has schizophrenia!' I'm not saying in any way that schizophrenia and social disorders aren't real. But the alarming number of people, especially children, who seem to have these 'illnesses' and need to be medicated or locked up... It's horrifying. The psychiatrists get their prestigious reputation and their money to burn. The drug companies get fast cash and a chance to claim that they've discovered a wonder-drug, capable of 'curing' anyone who might be a burden on society... That's what it's all about. It's not about really talking to these troubled people and finding out what they need. It's about giving them a pill that fits a pattern, a weapon to normalize people who might make society uncomfortable. The psychiatrists get their weapon. Today's generations get cheated out of their childhoods. The mental health industry takes the world's most vulnerable people and messes with their heads, giving them controlled substances just because they don't fit the normal puzzle. And sadly, it's more or less going to get worse in this rapidly advancing century.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["asocial","child-innocence","childhood","colleague","creepy","crime","disorder","drug-company","drugs","ethics","evil","family","friend","happy-pill","human-rights","imaginary-friend","industry","innocence","innocence-lost","lexapro","little-girl","mental-health","mental-illness","morals","normal","normalize","overactive-imagination","pretend","prozac","psychiatrist","psychiatry","psychologist","psychology","resperidone","ritalin","schizophrenia","science","social-issue","social-misfit","stigma","subjective","weapon","wrong","zoloft"],"id":243920,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never seen him before, but from the first moment that I looked at him I took his measure, almost by intuition. He was, I suppose, honest enough -- I have always granted him that, bitterly as I have felt toward him. It wasn't his fault that he lacked red blood in his brain, or that he had formed the habit, from long association with abnormal phenomena, of regarding all life as a disease. He was the sort of physician -- every nurse will understand what I mean -- who deals instinctively with groups instead of with individuals. He was long and solemn and very round in the face; and I hadn't talked to him ten minutes before I knew he had been educated in Germany, and that he had learned over there to treat every emotion as a pathological manifestation. I used to wonder what he got out of life -- what any one got out of life who had analyzed away everything except the bare structure.","author":"Ellen Glasgow","tags":["alienist-doctor","analysis","pathology","psychiatrist","psychiatry","psychologist","psychology"],"id":308982,"author_id":"Ellen+Glasgow"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}