"Psycho" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... way, I may as well set down here the queer experience which drove me this second time to the doctor. I'll keep an exact record of my symptoms and sensations, because they are interesting in themselves— "a curious psycho-physiological study," says the doctor—and also because I am perfectly certain that when I am through with them they will all seem blurred and unreal, like some queer dream betwixt sleeping and waking. So now, while they are fresh, I will just make a note of them, if only ...
— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle
... softly closed the door he composed himself, for he was in fact considerably exhausted. Remembering a conversation at the club with a celebrated psycho-analyst about the possibilities of auto-suggestion, he strove to empty his mind and then to repeat to himself very rapidly in a low murmur: "You will sleep, you will sleep, you will sleep, you will sleep," innumerable times. But the incantation would not work, probably ...
— Mr. Prohack • E. Arnold Bennett
... one insensibly either to understate, or to burlesque, or to indulge in a psychopathic analysis of emotion. [Footnote: Of the latter type of poetry a good example is Edgar Lee Masters' Monsieur D—— and the Psycho-Analyst.] ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins
... soul, as it shows itself with higher animals, especially with mammals—may have been the necessary condition and requirement for the origin of self-consciousness. It certainly has been so; and from this point of view, all these psychological studies of animals and psycho-physical investigations which are a favorite object of modern science, have a high value; but what has been called into existence by means of conditions is not on that account the product of those conditions. This very fact is one of the greatest ...
— The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality • Rudolf Schmid |
