In Psychology
- Slip (treatment), in psychology, a temporary return to a negative behavior after therapy intended to correct that behavior
- Freudian slip or parapraxis, an error in speech, memory, or physical action that arises from the unconscious mind
Read more about this topic: Slippery, In Science and Technology
Famous quotes containing the word psychology:
“We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behaviour, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of “spirit” over matter.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)