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Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, — the fear instinct.
Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
Philistine and Genius (1919)
The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.
Multiple Personality: an Experimental Investigation into Human Individuality (1904)
Self-preservation is the central aim of all life-activities.
Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.
The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases (1916)
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.
The Psychology of Suggestion: a Research into the Subconscious Nature of Man and Society (1889)
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.
Multiple Personality: an Experimental Investigation into Human Individuality (1904)
Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.
Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
It is time that the medical and teaching profession should realize that functional neurosis is not congenital, not inborn, not hereditary, but is the result of a defective, fear-inspiring education in early child life.
Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
No opinion should be disdained and scorned.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate.
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.
The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)