Psychology Archive
Here’s the scenario: You are moving across country. Driving from Los Angeles, CA to Sarasota, FL. Everything you own is in your car. EVERYTHING. You need to make it to Sarasota FAST. You start a new job in less than a week. …
As human beings, we are, of course, emotional creatures just as much as we are rational, if not more so. This means that any attempt to understand human actions without taking account of the emotional dimension is likely to be, …
Positive psychology and its promotion of optimism have become firmly established in the popular imagination now. The idea that people who are optimistic will fare better than people who are pessimistic has received a great deal of coverage and has …
Language is consciousness. The Swedish word for business is närings – liv. It means nourishment for life or nurturing life. In English the word business means “to be busy” – “a state of being much occupied or engaged”, or “what …
Some stress signals may fly under your radar if you are unaware that what you are feeling physically or emotionally are actually symptoms of stress. You may be in tune with many of your stress signals – ones that you …
Poorly framed descriptions of psychotherapy serve as a pretext for the requirement that the efficacy of therapy requires demonstration through randomized control trials. Such restriction involves an inadequate conceptualization of the nature of psychotherapeutic engagement but is an understandable reaction …
Confusions and uncertainty in sexual feeling and identity: the good, the bad, and the ugly.The solution for those who do raise such questions is not to find an answer (there isn't any to be found) but to outgrow the inclination …
What brings me back to psychoanalysis? What do I want to teach in the semester to follow? I’ll start with and come back to Freud. Freud had two commitments that remain mine. The first is to a vision of our …
By Bessel A. van der Kolk, M.D.Viking Penguin (2014)About The AuthorBessel van der Kolk, M.D., is the founder and medical director of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, and director of the National Complex Trauma Treatment Network.SynopsisA pioneering researcher and …
and how chasing your tail makes sense. Policies are guides to how we'd like to live our lives. Maxims are the behavioral logic that guide proper description."If the situation calls for a person to do something he can't do, he …
