James W. Prescott - Pleasure Quotes

12 Sourced Quotes

View all James W. Prescott Quotes
The issues of human violence and human pleasure are pivotal to any theory—scientific or religious—of moral behavior. Violence and pleasure are reciprocally related, that is, the presence of one inhibits the other, and certain critical early sensory experiences during the formative periods of development provide the neurobiological substrate and properties for either violence-seeking or pleasure-seeking behaviors.

James W. Prescott
The contributions of Freud to the effects of early experiences upon later behaviors and consequences of repressed sexuality have been well established. Unfortunately time and space do not permit a discussion here of his differences with Wilhelm Reich concerning his Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

James W. Prescott
It appears that the beneficial effects of infant physical affection can be negated by the repression of physical pleasure (premarital sex) later in life.

James W. Prescott
Body pleasure is very different from promiscuity, which reflects a basic inability to experience pleasure. If a sexual relationship is not pleasurable, the individual looks for another partner.... Affectionately shared physical pleasure... tends to stabalize a relationship and eliminate the search.

James W. Prescott
The pleasure-prone personality has a low capacity and tolerance for violent-aggressive behaviors. Conversely, the violence and aggression prone personality has a low capacity and tolerance for pleasure and for sensuous behaviors. As one goes up, the other goes down.

James W. Prescott
Most of our 'pleasure' activities appear to be substitutes for the natural sensory pleasures of touching.

James W. Prescott
Certain sensory experiences during the formative periods of development will create a neuropsychological predisposition for either violence-seeking or pleasure-seeking behaviors later in life.

James W. Prescott
Stimulation of brain pleasure centers can eliminate feelings of rage, fear, and depression.

James W. Prescott
Laboratory experiments show that... When the brain's pleasure circuits are 'on,' the violence circuits are 'off,' and vice versa.

James W. Prescott
Recent research supports the point of view that the deprivation of physical pleasure is a major ingredient in the expression of physical violence.

James W. Prescott
The deprivation of physical sensory pleasure is the principle root cause of violence.

James W. Prescott
The detrimental effects of infant physical affectional deprivation seem to be compensated for later in life by sexual body pleasure experiences during adolescence.

James W. Prescott