Cognitive Science Enthusiast Gifts

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

'Look, you can only do so much!'

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

"I can't decide if we're good people who are bad at communicating, or monsters who communicate perfectly."

"Freudian, Jungian, Adlerian – none of it compares to retail therapy."

"Wait—what did I come into this room to do?"

Clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and memory.

Pavlov's Puppy

"My first night in the lab and I was clearly the smallest brain in the place."

"First, we'll look for repressed memories of malpractice suits."

'Maybe we have the wrong subject for this brain mapping project.'

Blok drives by New York City.

"Leon, do you think it's all psychological?"

Free-Floating Anxiety

"Most people forget they've had amnesia."

'...and when the wolves moved house I was adopted by beetles.'

Pavlov's Cat

Regardless children just want to fit in.

'Do you know how much it cost me to LEARN all this psychobabble?'

"Tom, let's explore why you feel Andrea's inability to understand 'icing the puck' is passive-aggressive."

"My brother is always trying to one-up me. As soon as I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder he said he had tripolar disorder."

Mummy Shrink.

Chuck didn't care what his therapist said; that is not where he left his dummy.

"You have got to want to change."

The glass is half full. - '' - 'The glass is half empty' - '' - 'Gah!! No clean glasses!!' - '' -

'I blame my parents, they never set me any standards worth rebelling against.'

"So. Mr Smith, what makes you think you are too controlling?"

"Doctor, your client with the multiple personality disorder, is on lines one, two, three and four."

In and out, in and out, in and out...

"You keep everything bottled up inside."

"I dreamed last night that I was furious at you for charging me for missing last week's session. What do you think it means?"

"Do you feel you were loved as a tadpole?"

"Adolescence can be a very trying time, Mr. Alcorn."

'This definitely calls for group therapy.'