Category: Psychology
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No coincidences…
Nothing Comes “Out of the Blue”. Freud discovered that there are no accidents and no coincidences. Even “random-seeming” feelings, ideas, impulses, wishes, events and actions carry important, often unconscious, meanings. (1) The unconscious rules our lives. And even though we feel the cosmos is ruled by rules we do not yet understand them. Perhaps sensing…
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Redundant neural connections…
Researchers claim that they have found a possible explanation for schizophrenia. The researchers pieced together the steps by which genes can increase a person’s risk of developing schizophrenia. That risk, they found, is tied to a natural process called synaptic pruning, in which the brain sheds weak or redundant connections between neurons as it matures.…
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Ghosts… Depression… A dead God. The unseen problems of a “progressed” world…
It is exactly α hundred years since Sigmund Freud set pen to paper to write his groundbreaking paper Mourning and Melancholia. Published in 1917, Freud distinguished between two responses to loss: mourning, when the object of loss is clear and obvious, and thus can be emotionally processed; and melancholia, a state of being in which…
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Stress. A disease to fight. By doing NOTHING!
Chronic stress can wreak havoc on the body! (1) according to a study. And how could we get rid of stress? By doing some things, like yoga or raising a pet, according to another article. (2) But modern people do not understand that stress is a result of our believing that we must always "do…
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Schizophrenia. Voices. Spirits...
People with schizophrenia may hear either hostile voices goading them to jump off a bridge or a mother’s soothing words of advice, depending on the cultures in which they live, a new study suggests. In the United States, schizophrenia’s symptoms include hallucinations of disembodied voices that hurl insults and make violent commands, says an international…
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