Top 100 Tom Butler-Bowdon Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

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

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

54. “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.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

55. “Burns helped to establish a new method of treatment, cognitive therapy, and Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy is his attempt to explain how it works and why it is different. The.”

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56. “While we are pushed by drives, we are pulled by meaning, and.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

57. “They may camouflage their true feelings in ingenious ways: To show that they are not vain, they may purposely pay less attention to dress or be overly modest. But.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

58. “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

59. “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

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

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

61. “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

62. “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.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

63. “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

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

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65. “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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66. “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

67. “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.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

68. “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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69. “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

70. “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.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

71. “Ilya Prigogine, chemist; John.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

72. “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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73. “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.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

74. “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

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “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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79. “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

80. “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

81. “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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82. “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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83. “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.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

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

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

85. “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.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

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

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

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

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

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

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89. “First, love your work.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

90. “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

91. “For many years, psychology was surprisingly little interested in happiness.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

92. “Douglas Stone and his colleagues give excellent advice on how to deal with some of the most challenging workplace encounters.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

93. “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

94. “If Adler’s theory of human action relates to power, concentration camp survivor Viktor Frankl’s brand of existential psychology, “logotherapy,” posits that the human species is uniquely made to seek meaning.”

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

95. “What is humor, de Bono asks, but the sudden restructuring of existing patterns? If.”

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96. “They had no idea what was or wasn’t appropriate behavior, no concept of the usual give and take of normal relationships.”

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97. “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.”

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98. “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

99. “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

100. “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