"One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior."
- Abhijit Naskar
"The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal needs."
"If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account..."
"Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages."
- Sherry Turkle
"Mary was my first encounter with dissociative identity disorder (DID), which at that time was called multiple personality disorder. As dramatic as its symptoms are, the internal splitting and emergenc..."
- Bessel A. van der Kolk