Top 100 Tom Butler-Bowdon Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “The study showed that even when the wire mother was the one lactating, the monkeys vastly preferred to be with and have physical contact with the soft-cloth mother.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

52. “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.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

53. “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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54. “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

55. “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.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

56. “Frankl’s brand of therapy is sometimes considered, after Freud’s psychoanalysis and Adler’s individual psychology, to be the third school of Viennese psychotherapy, and The Will to Meaning clearly points out the differences between his ideas and those of his compatriots. It.”

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57. “Only 10 percent were middle class. The.”

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58. “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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59. “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

60. “Disenchantment is a malady, and even if it is caused by particular circumstances, it is wise to overcome it as soon as possible. The more things a person is interested in, the greater their chances of happiness.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

61. “In the 1950s, American psychology was dominated by the behaviorists, whose endless experiments with lab rats aimed to show how easily the mammalian mind was shaped by its environment. Harlow.”

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62. “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

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

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

64. “Cognitive therapy’s revolutionary idea is that depression is not an emotional disorder. The bad feelings we have in depression all stem from negative thoughts, therefore treatment must be about challenging and changing those thoughts.”

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65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

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

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69. “He notes that it remains the cancer of the mental health world: We are close to finding a cure, but not close enough for those who do not respond quickly to drugs or therapy.”

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70. “The source of extraversion or introversion was in the varying levels of excitability of the brain; the driver.”

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71. “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

72. “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

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

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

74. “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.”

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

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77. “Burns collaborated with pioneering cognitive psychologist Aaron T. Beck, who believed that most depression or anxiety was simply a result of illogical and negative thinking. He.”

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

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79. “While this example involved projecting instincts onto the world, Freud argued that this is a comparatively healthy form of defense. A more powerful and often more damaging defense is repression, because it requires the most energy to keep it in place.”

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80. “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.”

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81. “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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82. “Ilya Prigogine, chemist; John.”

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83. “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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84. “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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85. “Explanations of thoughts as the product of some deeper force such as the soul, he felt, were really the realm of metaphysics.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

86. “Harlow’s paper “The nature of love” turned all this on its head. With his refusal to see love and affection as simply a “secondary drive,” it became one of the most celebrated scientific papers ever written.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

87. “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

88. “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

89. “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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90. “Csikszentmihalyi suggests that the common idea of a creative individual coming up with great insights, discoveries, works, or inventions in isolation is wrong. Creativity results from a complex interaction between a person and their environment or culture, and also depends on timing.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

91. “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

92. “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.”

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93. “What psychology failed to appreciate, Frankl believed, is the multidimensional nature of human beings. He did not deny that biology or conditioning shapes us, but he also insisted that there is room for free will – to choose to develop certain values or a particular course in life, or to retain our dignity in difficult situations.”

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

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

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

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

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

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

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99. “First, love your work.”

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100. “The term “defense” in relation to psychology was first used by Sigmund Freud in 1894. He meant it to describe, as Anna Freud said, “the ego’s struggle against painful or unendurable ideas or effects,” which may lead to neurosis. The.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon