I've Found That Contemporary Psychology Enrages Me

We're An Air Bag Society That Wants Guarantees On Everything That We Buy. We Want To Be Able To Take Everything Back And Get Another One. We Want A 401-k Plan And Social Security.

The Gift Of An Image Is That It Provides A Place To Watch Your Soul.

A Mother Should Have Some Fantasy About Her Child's Future. It Will Increase Her Interest In The Child, For One Thing. To Turn The Fantasy Into A Program To Make The Child Fly An Airplane Across The Country, For Example, Isn't The Point. That's The Fulfillment Of The Parent's Own Dreams. That's Different. Having A Fantasy - Which The Child Will Either Seek To Fulfill Or Rebel Against Furiously - At Least Gives A Child Some Expectation To Meet Or Reject.

I Sometimes Get Short-tempered In A Public Situation Because I Think, Oh God, I Can't Go Back Over That Again. I Can't Put That Into A Two-word Answer. I Can't. Wherever I Go, People Say, "can I Ask You A Quick Question?" It's Always, "a Quick Question." Well, My Answers Are Slow.

As The Popular Trust In Science Fades - And Many Sociologists Say That's Happening Today - People Will Develop A Distrust Of Purely "scientific" Psychology. Researchers In The Universities Haven't Picked Up On This; They're More Interested In Genetics And Computer Models Of Thinking Than Ever. But, In General, There Is A Huge Distrust Of The Scientific Establishment Now.