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Sex Abuse and Mind Control Starts at the Top
Well there sure is a whole lot of discussion these days with regards to sex abuse in the world. We have Catholic Priests molesting children, child sex slaves in many countries and abductions all over the place. It is hard to say if there is more of this lately or if indeed the media realizes that people are very upset with it all?Read more…The Cosmos is Infinite, the Mind Finite?
Many believe the cosmos is infinite. Indeed this is certainly a possibility as we look out into space and realize how insignificant we really are. Recently in an online think tank forum a member pitched the thought, which is somewhat a reflection of Carl Sagan’s ideas, that indeed the cosmos is infinite.Read more…Psychology: PTSD and Dissociation
Many lay people are familiar with phenomenon of multiple personality disorder that in the last decade became renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID for short. Over my 20 years in Psychiatric practice I saw my fair share of individuals with DID.Very simply the theory as to why DID exists goes something like this:When an individual experiences repeated incidents of severe trauma such as sexual, physical and/or emotional abuse during their lives, the emotional/physical pain associated with such memories become "split off" or "compartmentalized" in the mind/body as separate personalities.Read more…Psychology: Releasing Mutilple Traumatic Memories At Once
In a case study entitled:“Releasing Multiple Trauma Memories Simultaneously in a Single Session Using the Mind Resonance Process (MRP): Two Case Studies”Published in the Journal For The Advancement of the Human Condition, Volume 1, 2005, to be found at: http://www.akamaiuniversity.us/faculty.Read more…Sexual Dreams are Not What They Seem
So we can say if you are not connected properly with your own dream life, then you are liable to develop some kind of neurotic behavior. - Marie Louise von FranzHere’s a fascinating paradox: Most sexual dreams are not literally about sex. Instead dreams with sexual images and experiences are more often exploring creative dilemmas: the process of creating new life, connecting to our passion and creative potential.Read more…Brain Bandwidth; Don't Worry You Got Plenty
Often people say things like, well I am not a rocket scientist so what did you expect. Interesting comment, but you could be if you wanted to be. It is a pretty accepted fact that the human brain is completely underutilized and is capable of so much more.Read more…Why Do We Only Use Part of Our Brains?
It is a well-known fact that we use only a small percentage of our total brain capacity. Yet many ask, why not use more of it? Why waste it?Read more…Trauma And Traumatic Stress
A young mother brought a seven year old boy to my office. The young man, an intelligent boy, had suddenly started to throw up on being taken to the school. He pleaded and begged his mother not to send him to school.Read more…Mankind's Fascination with the Human Mind
Ever since mankind could ask the serious questions, he has pondered what makes the human mind tick? Why do we think the things we do? And thus philosophy has been able to capture the imagination in countless hours of thought.Read more…Culture
In the present-day world there are few people who reject the phenomenon of globalization. The world is becoming more and more global in the sense that people of various cultures start to communicate more freely. Furthermore there are means to communicate thoughts and ideas across cultures such as television, the internet and so on.Read more…Emotions Make Us Stupid
I want to take a simplistic, layman's view of our brains.Our brains are complex structures within which three main components may be identified – the reptilian brain; the emotional brain and the logical/rational brain.When any one of these parts of our brain is highly stimulated it makes it impossible for the other areas to function.Read more…Conspiracy Theorists Websites; Boo!
As you surf the Internet be careful what you read. Some information out there such as; Conspiracy Theorists Websites are often filled with some pretty tall tales. They sure will talk a good game and they all claim to have secrets to tell you.Read more…Blended Realities of the Mind
Do you have re-occurring dreams? Do you ever wonder if you have these enough that you might start blending them with your reality? Have you ever found yourself having dreams that seemed so real that they seemed as an actual experience?Read more…Tall People Have an Advantage in Life
Many people do not believe that your height has anything to do with your success in life, yet you should realize that it indeed does. Studies have shown this time and time again. Human height in the present period does have great advantages as to upward mobility.Read more…A Stolen Smile: How To Interpret Dreams of Losing Your Teeth
The soul thinks in images.— AristotleA welcome sigh of relief usually accompanies the realization that it was “just a dream” about our teeth falling out. We dismiss it as yet another disturbing image from that often incomprehensible dream worldmaybe it was too much pizza?Read more…Did Carl Jung Underestimate the Significance of This Transformative Dream?
No prisons are more confining than the ones of which we are unaware. - Shakespeare, The TempestIn 1913, a frustrated thirty-eight-year-old Swiss psychologist, Carl Jung, broke with Freud, who had been an important mentor for many years. It was a scary and traumatic experience for Jung.Read more…Memory Leaks: Our Minds
Anybody who has spent a lot of time studying computers knows that computers suffer from memory leaks. Lost information and *breaks* seem to be the norm with today's technology. Could we be experiencing the same problem?Read more…Expressing Your Hate Is Sometimes Useful
Sometimes hate may be very useful. Yes, I mean it. When you pull off your negative emotions on something absolutely unconnected with your family or friends, it saves them from your rage.Read more…MetaPrograms Accessing Cues
The credit for inspiring me and giving the idea to work on this goes to Eric Robbie – in July 2005 in Mexico on Master Prac course he only mentioned Meta Programs Accessing Cues and I thought – WOW. It was sort of the feeling psychologists get when they discover fast phobia cure – they go, “Hey!!Read more…Memory and Learning - Just How Does it All Work?
If all the data received by our senses were stored in our memory, we would soon be overwhelmed. The subconscious sorts through the input and retains only a fraction for permanent memory storage. Every second, the eyes absorb ten million bits of information, the skin takes in one million bits, and the ears receive one-hundred thousand bits.Read more…
Most Recent Articles in Psychology category
- Serious Problems in Psychotherapy Require Serious Medicine - By: Steven A. Frankel
As a psychotherapy patient, do you wonder whether the work you and your therapist are doing will succeed and produce lasting results? Patients frequently remain in the dark about whether treatment is actually succeeding. The solution to this dilemma is a treatment considerably broader in scope than conventional psychological and psychiatric therapy. In conducting this innovative method of treatment, the therapist assumes the kind of clinical responsibility that is typical of a physician. He or she takes responsibility for addressing the full range of the patient's presenting and underlying problems, and coordinating all aspects of the patient's treatment. - Help With Psychology Dissertation Available Here! - By: Maki Kopper
When thinking how to write a psychology dissertation, you to analyze, to understand, to evaluate and contrast, to reveal cause and effect... - Getting the Most Out of Therapy: How to Collaborate With Your Therapist - By: Steven Frankel, M.D.
If you are in therapy, you and your therapist have already invested a significant amount of time and energy into your work, and you both have the same goal in mind: helping you achieve your own objectives for emotional growth and healing. If and when a difference of opinion over the treatment does occur, rather than walking away from your therapist, it is usually well worth the effort try to find a collaborative way to again go forward. - Colors in Dreams and Their Meaning - By: Daniel Zoleta
Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many of the ancient societies, including Egypt and Greece, dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention, whose message could be unravelled by those with certain powers. In modern times, various schools of psychology have offered theories about the meaning of dreams. - Boost Your IQ: Techniques to Increase Your Intelligence Quotient Today - By: Evgheny Stivenson
It is possible to enhance your intelligence quotient in a matter of 10 minutes. Some techniques to do so are discussed below. Don't you want to enhance your IQ? Of course, you can use the brain power exercises and techniques. But these are long term and you would need to regularly practice them. What if you want to boost your IQ now, when you don't have more than 10 minutes. - Online Psychology Programs - By: Mary Jackson
Students pursuing psychology online degrees learn about the human mind and behavior and its biological, social and cognitive bases, as well how to apply this knowledge to practical problems. Student enrolled in online psychology programs can choose to specialize in areas of psychology such as educational, child, clinical, sport, forensic, industrial, organizational, social and marriage and family therapy. - Toronto Psychologist and Psychoanalyst - By: Sandra Palef
If you want to get an idea of what psychotherapy is all about, watch an episode of the television series The Sopranos. Tony Soprano is a mafia don in New Jersey who is in talk therapy with Dr. Jennifer Melfi. He has panic attacks, loses consciousness, and has slipped into a depression. All of this seems irrational to him, but he can’t help it. He has some hidden agenda lying just outside his awareness that is controlling his feelings and behavior. He doesn’t believe in therapy at the start, convinced he cannot talk about himself and that it won’t help anyway. He resists, evading Dr. Melfi’s questions, withdrawing, and even walking out. But eventually he is intrigued. - Magic Happens When Eternity Meets Linear Time in Dream Work - By: Ron Masa, Ph.D.
Even if you're speeding around town, frantically running late, your dog in the back seat is perfectly on time; centered in the Now.I once thought "eternity" meant: Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. forever. - One Dream Interprets Another to Predict the U.S. Mid-Term Election Results - By: Ron Masa, Ph.D.
Dreams come from wherever we do. They regularly predict the future and they link people together in the world of dreams. In the following case one dream even arrived to interpret another dream! - Dream Telepathy: Some Dream Workers Make Late Night House Calls - By: Ron Masa, Ph.D.
"Not until a person dissolves, can he or she know what union is." -RumiNothing seems more obvious than that every human being is a distinct and separate entity. America champions the rights of the individual and self-determination.