Top 100 Tom Butler-Bowdon Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Burns notes the catch-22 nature of depression: The worse we feel, the more distorted our thoughts become, and this thinking plunges us even lower into black feelings about ourselves. Nearly.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

52. “It is a myth that there is one “creative personality.” Something all creative people seem to share is complexity – they “tend to bring the entire range of human possibilities within themselves.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

53. “Anna Freud took up where her father left off in focusing on the psychology of the ego, noting that humans do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in the creation of psychological defenses. Neo-Freudian.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

54. “Psychology is the science of mental life.” William James.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

55. “A central idea in Adlerian psychology is that individuals are always striving toward a goal. Whereas Freud saw us as driven by what was in our past, Adler had a teleological view – that we are driven by our goals, whether they are conscious or not. The.”

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56. “In short, every child develops in ways that best allow them to compensate for weakness;.”

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57. “Though they could be affectionate to other monkeys, few were able to mate as adults, and those who did have offspring were not able to take care of them properly. Clearly, the lack of normal response from their fake mothers, and their isolation from other monkeys, had made them socially backward. They.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

58. “First, love your work.”

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59. “The ego continually endeavors to create harmony between itself, the unconscious, and the outside world, but this does not always lead to perfect mental health. In fact, sometimes when the ego “wins” the person as a whole may have lost, since the win may involve the creation of a defense in order to have the ego maintain its sense of itself at all costs.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

60. “This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By.”

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61. “The cognitive psychology revolution has had a dramatic impact on mental health, and two of its major names are David D. Burns and Albert Ellis. Their mantra that thoughts create feelings, not the other way around, has helped many people to get back in control of their lives because it applies logic and reason to the murky pool of emotions.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

62. “Harlow went so far as to suggest that perhaps the main function of nursing was to ensure frequent physical contact between baby and mother, since the loving bond seemed so vital for survival. After all, he noted, long after the actual sustenance stops, it is the bond that remains.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

63. “But first we have to accept the idea that thinking long and hard about something does not always deliver us better results, and that the brain actually evolved to make us think on our feet.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

64. “In all these situations of conflict the ego is seeking to repudiate a part of its own id. Thus the institution which sets up the defence and the invading force which is warded off are always the same; the variable factors are the motives which impel the ego to resort to defensive measures. Ultimately all such measures are designed to secure the ego and to save it from experiencing ’pain.”

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65. “The girl’s envy and jealousy were transformed into unselfishness and thoughtfulness for others. Though.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

66. “Prior to the 1980s, David Burns writes, depression had been the cancer of the psychological world – widespread but difficult to treat – and the taboos associated with it made the problem worse for most people. As.”

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67. “Burns points out that the basic idea of cognitive therapy – that our thoughts affect our emotions and mood, not the other way around – goes back a long way: The ancient philosopher Epictetus rested his career on the idea that it is not events that determine your state of mind, but how you decide to feel about the events. This.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

68. “We are happiest when we are being creative because we lose our sense of self and get the feeling that we are part of something greater. We.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

69. “Melanie Klein focused on how a “schizoid” personality could develop as the result of an infant’s relations with its mother in the first year of life, although she noted that most people grow out of this and establish healthy relations with themselves and the world. Most.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

70. “In the medical field, it is commonly assumed that the more information practitioners have, the better their decisions. However, this is frequently not so. More.”

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71. “When any of these forces gains the upper hand, it is usually because of deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Yet.”

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72. “Psychologists, at least psychologists who write textbooks, not only show no interest in the origin and development of love or affection, but they seem to be unaware of its very existence.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

73. “A fork in the developmental path leads a child either to imitate adults in order to become more assertive and powerful themselves, or consciously to display weakness so as to get adult help and attention.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

74. “Love has traditionally been the domain of poets, artists, and philosophers, but in the last 50 years the terrain of relationships has increasingly been mapped by psychologists.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

75. “Freud believed human beings to be wholly driven by the stirrings of the unconscious mind, but Adler saw us as social beings who create a style of life in response to the environment and to what we feel we lack. Individuals.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

76. “He noted the remarkable contrast between how the depressed person feels – that they are a loser or that their life has gone horribly wrong – and the actual conditions of their life, which are often high in achievement. Beck’s conclusion was that depression therefore had to be based on problems in thinking. By.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

77. “We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in us creating psychological defenses.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

78. “It is characteristic of insight solutions and new ideas that they should be obvious after they have been found.”

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79. “The behaviorist view was that babies – monkey or human – loved their mothers for the milk that they provided, since this satisfied a primary need. But what Harlow had seen with the cloth pads made him wonder whether babies might love their mothers not for their milk only, but because they provided warmth and affection. Perhaps.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

80. “A nation becomes great not by a mere imposition of order and power, but by letting go, knowing that there is much to gain by open discussion.”

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81. “While a complex may make someone more timid or withdrawn, it could equally produce the need to compensate for that in overachievement. This is the “pathological power drive,” expressed at the expense of other people and society generally. Adler identified Napoleon, a small man making a big impact on the world, as a classic case of an inferiority complex in action.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

82. “The lateral thinking concept emerged from de Bono’s study of how the mind works. He found that the brain is not best understood as a computer; rather, it is “a special environment which allows information to organize itself into patterns.” The mind continually looks for patterns, thinks in terms of patterns, and is self-organizing, incorporating new information in terms of what it already knows. Given.”

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83. “As thinking is a process of judgment, the final element in this person’s type is “Judgment.” They are ENTJs. Other people’s final letter is P for “Perception,” indicating their strong desire to understand better.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

84. “Barry Schwartz’s distinction between maximizers and satisficers has given us the counterintuitive insight that restricting our choices in life can actually lead to greater happiness and satisfaction, and.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

85. “What drives them, more than rewards, is the desire to find or create order where there was none before.”

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86. “The ego is always alert to the dangers that the unconscious may over-throw it. It may try to intellectualize away unconscious urges, inhibit them, project them onto others, or deny them. Freud.”

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87. “The work of both Piaget and Kinsey suggests that while biology is always a dominant influence on behavior, environment is critical to its expression. Even.”

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88. “Whatever he thought he was, it was painfully clear he was not.”

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89. “Harlow observed that when his baby monkeys grew up, they had many things wrong with them. Instead of the normal range of responses, they swung between clinging attachment and destructive aggression, often tearing at their body or shredding bits of cloth or paper. Even as adults they had to cling to soft, furry things, and did not seem to know the difference between living and inanimate objects. Though.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

90. “William James defined psychology as the science of mental life, but it could equally be defined as the science of human nature.”

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91. “Abraham Maslow, on the other hand, identified a minority of self-actualized individuals who did not act simply out of conformity to society but chose their own path and lived to fulfill their potential. This type of person was as representative of human nature as any mindless conformist.”

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92. “This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By changing our thinking, we can alleviate depression or simply have greater control over our behavior.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

93. “We are actually programmed to get satisfaction and pleasure from discovery and creativity, he says, because its results lead to our survival as a species. New.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

94. “50 Self-Help Classics and 50 Spiritual Classics, which explore books on the more transformational and spiritual sides of psychology.”

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95. “Her ego and id had fully lost the battle with her superego, and this was the only way they could be expressed.”

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96. “He looked for ways in which new ideas could come into being via spontaneous insight rather than conflict.”

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97. “All personalities can be measured according to two or three basic biologically determined dimensions.”

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98. “A desire for recognition emerges at the same time as a sense of inferiority. A good upbringing should be able to dissolve this sense of inferiority, and as a result the child will not develop an unbalanced need to win at the expense of others.”

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99. “When a natural instinct surfaces, the ego wants to have it satisfied, but the superego does not allow that. The ego submits to the “higher” superego, but is left with the problem. It begins a struggle with the impulse and, to reduce the pain of not satisfying it, engineers a defense that allows itself to make sense of its decision to submit.”

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100. “The remarkable writings of Oliver Sacks, for instance, show that the brain continually works to create and maintain the feeling of an “I” that is in control, even if there is in fact no part of the brain that can be identified as the locus of “self feeling.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon