Mindset Explorers Gifts

"Are we pessimists and our stomachs are half empty or optimists and our stomachs are half full?"

"Bob has always been more comfortable thinking inside the box."

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

The Map of the human brain

'...when did you first get these feelings of wanting to be a psychiatrist?'

Sigmund Freud.

X-ray Psychology.

Unguided imagery

'Half an optimist is an odd bird, Sarah.'

"Yes, sir, Dave. Out here, under the big sky, I always get back in touch with who I am."

'I see you in five years from now, you're still coming to see me. Do you want me to book the appointments in advance?'

Roland, the schizophrenic cowboy.

". . . but he's almost four and he hasn't been labelled yet!"

'Care to join in some of my avoidance behaviour?'

"Have you tried just giving your head a shake?"

"I should warn you that many of John's thoughts are subliminal."

'I beleive I have a new approach to psychotherapy, but, like everything else, the FDA tells me it first has to be tested on mice.'

'Enlightenment-shmenlightenment - what I'm worried about is tenure!'

'What do lawyers really want, Mr. Montague?'

A Padlock and a Pet Key.

"I owe all my success to the psychiatrist who gave me the word GREED as my mantra!"

"...but this is the stuff of dreams Mr Whitley! Dreams."

'There is nothing physically wrong. It needs a psychiatrist.'

"You'll never be a full participant in your mental health care if you keep saying wacky things."

"Don't step on the blacks or the nasty bogie man will get you!"

"I had that dream again where you're writing down all my fears and anxieties and working them into a screenplay."

Psychologist is SHOCKED by what his elderly patent is telling him.

"My System 1 tells me she's articulate, capable, shrewd. My System 2 says BIMBO."

"But, Jesus - you can't become an atheist."

"You have got to want to change."

Lost and Profound.

''Normal' seems too much to shoot for ... but maybe I can keep you out of the nuthouse.'

Confirmation Bias

'Relax, it's purely a seasonally affected disorder.'

"'Cogito, ergo sum' is all very well for you, but what about me?"