The L.A. Harbor College Psychology Club
Our purpose: to make the study of psychology more meaningful and enjoyable.
We wish to share our enthusiasm for psychology with other students.
We welcome all students who want to improve their lives and relationships through a better understanding of psychology.
In a world that needs psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric social workers, we want to inspire psychology students to persist in their studies, and not quit.
We wish to help dedicated psychology students to obtain careers that will be socially valuable and personally fulfilling.
Contact us at psychologyclub@lahc.edu if psychology interests you, or if Harbor College's Human Services major appeals to you.
Ask about membership in the Psychology Club. The names of members will be place on our mailing list. You don't have to major in psychology to become a member or an officer of the club.
Click here to learn about meetings, activities, and events.
Our club logo: the Greek letter Psi, the universal symbol of psychology.
The American Psychological Association, the California Psychological Association, and the Orange County Psychological Association each display the letter Psi on their websites.
In our symbol, the golden halo represents the radiance of knowledge.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler.
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. Alfred Adler.
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. Richard Alpert.
Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. Roberto Assagioli.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Viktor Frankl.
When we are no longer able to change a situation---we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor Frankl.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock. Sigmund Freud.
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. Sigmund Freud.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud.
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Erich Fromm.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Erich Fromm.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play of instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. Carl Jung.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung.
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. R.D. Laing.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. Abraham Maslow.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. Abraham Maslow.
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. Wilhelm Reich.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality. Theodor Reik.
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love. Theodor Reik.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Carl Rogers.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive---to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes from living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B.F. Skinner.
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. B.F. Skinner.
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. Philip Zimbardo.