150. Psychology
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The Science of Loneliness: How Isolation Can Kill You
S ometime in the late ’50s, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann sat down to write an essay about a subject that had been mostly overlooked by other psychoanalysts up to that point. Even Freud had only touched on it in passing. She was not sure, she wrote, “what inner forces” made her struggle with the problem of loneliness, though she had a notion. It might have been the young female catatonic patient who began to communicate only when Fromm-Reichmann asked her how lonely she was. “She raised her hand with her thumb lifted, the other four fingers bent toward her palm,” Fromm-Reichmann wrote. The thumb stood alone, “isolated from the four hidden fingers.”
The mind is a wonderful thing – there is so much about it which remains a mystery to this day.
Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind
List of cognitive biases
Cognitive bias is distortion in the way we perceive reality. Many of these biases are often studied for how they affect business and economic decisions and how they affect scientific and experimental research. For more information about the topic List of cognitive biases , read the full article at Wikipedia.org , or see the following related articles: Cognitive bias — A cognitive bias is any of a wide range of observer effects identified in cognitive science and social psychology including very basic statistical, ... > read more
Part of the sequence: Rationality and Philosophy We have already examined one source of our intuitions: attribute substitution heuristics . Today we examine a second source of our intuitions: biological evolution .
Your Evolved Intuitions
Cognition
Of our five senses, the one we pay the least attention to, and science studies the least, is touch.
6 Things That Are Secretly Turning You Into A Bad Person
Boundaries and Dysfunctional Family Systems - Psychotherapy Treatment And Psychotherapist Information
Mark Dombeck, Ph.D. Updated: Aug 1st 2006 "I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again." - from " Mending Wall " by Robert Frost Another month, and another essay. After a two month break during which I seem to have facilitated a spirited discussion concerning the merits and failures of Alcoholics Anonymous , I'm now returning to my ongoing essay series concerning the technical contributions of various schools of psychotherapy to the psychotherapy process.
Always Giving and Never Feeling Satisfied The basis for a healthy relationship with another must start with a healthy relationship with yourself. Addictive Love is An Intense or Exaggerated Reaction (to) Involvement (with) Expectations (of) Another That Results in Inadequate Attention Concern Care for Yourself. Addictive Relationship (definition) The relationship addict feels a sense of incompleteness, emptiness, despair, and sadness that he or she seeks to remedy by connecting with another.
Addictive Love
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How Gambling Can Kill You Faster Than Drug Abuse or Alcoholism | Alternet
Me, Myself and My Stranger: Understanding the Neuroscience of Selfhood
SELF REFLECTION: Bodily illusions teach neuroscientists about the sense of self.
152.4 Emotions
153.6 Psychology of Communication
155- Differential & Developmental Psych
People Who Can't Control Themselves Control The People Around Them
" People who can’t control themselves control the people around them.The end of 2010 fast approaches, and I'm thrilled to have been asked by the editors of Psychology Today to write about the Top 10 psychology studies of the year. I've focused on studies that I personally feel stand out, not only as examples of great science, but even more importantly, as examples of how the science of psychology can improve our lives. Each study has a clear "take home" message, offering the reader an insight or a simple strategy they can use to reach their goals , strengthen their relationships, make better decisions, or become happier.