Kensho Harry Harlow Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development. He conducted most of his research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow worked for a time with him. Harlow's experiments were controversial; they included rearing infant macaques in isolation chambers for up to 24 months, from which they emerged severely disturbed.[1] Some researchers cite the experiments as a factor in the rise of the animal liberation movement in the United States.[2] Biography[edit] Born Harry Israel on October 31, 1905 to Mabel Rock and Alonzo Harlow Israel, Harlow grew up in Fairfield, Iowa, the second youngest of four brothers. Harlow's personal life was complicated. Monkey studies[edit] Dr. To investigate the debate, Dr.
Is the Universe a Holographic Reality? The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? In 1982 a remarkable event took place. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery.
Article According to a Stanford psychologist, you’ll reach new heights if you learn to embrace the occasional tumble. One day last November, psychology professor Carol Dweck welcomed a pair of visitors from the Blackburn Rovers, a soccer team in the United Kingdom’s Premier League. The Rovers’ training academy is ranked in England’s top three, yet performance director Tony Faulkner had long suspected that many promising players weren’t reaching their potential. Ignoring the team’s century-old motto—arte et labore, or “skill and hard work”—the most talented individuals disdained serious training. On some level, Faulkner knew the source of the trouble: British soccer culture held that star players are born, not made. A 60-year-old academic psychologist might seem an unlikely sports motivation guru. What’s more, Dweck has shown that people can learn to adopt the latter belief and make dramatic strides in performance. As a graduate student at Yale, Dweck started off studying animal motivation.
P E R C E I V I N G R E A L I T Y Psychiatric Meds: Prescription for Murder? In a frenzied cry for gun-control, the media is rife with details about the firearms Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and six adults before turning a handgun on himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. But information about Lanza’s medical history is scarce, feeding speculation that he may fit the profile of school shooters under the influence of psychotherapeutic medication. “In virtually every mass school shooting during the past 15 years, the shooter has been on or in withdrawal from psychiatric drugs,” observed Lawrence Hunter of the Social Security Institute. There is a striking connection between school shootings and psychotherapeutic drugs, also known as psychotropics. • Toby Sincino, a 15-year-old who shot two teachers and himself in 1995 at his South Carolina school, was taking the antidepressant Zoloft. • Shawn Cooper fired two shotgun rounds in 1999 at his Idaho high school while on an antidepressant. • T.J. Dr. The Drug Pushers
Reality: A Mere Illusion (Part 2) | Science By Leonardo VintiniEpoch Times Staff Created: December 20, 2009 Last Updated: June 17, 2012 A view of the visible universe as seen in a Hubble Telescope composite photograph. Is our universe just a hologram? “To them, I say, the truth would be nothing more than shadows of the imagination.” Shadows and colors of light are crude projections of a “more real” reality. Scientists in Hanover, Germany, working on the GEO 600, an instrument that detects gravitational waves, believe they have discovered a “granulation” in space-time that indicates that our universe is nothing more than a giant hologram. Those responsible for the GEO 600 believe that, in the same way a digital image loses resolution with significant increase in its size, the captured interference in the detector could be interpreted as the universe’s limited resolution of what it’s capable of providing to human eyes. You and I, Only Holograms The idea of a holographic universe isn’t new.
With 49 Million Americans on Psychiatric Drugs — Renowned Psychiatrist Issues Call for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal Note: According Medco Health 1 in 5 American adults are currently taking mind-altering psychiatric drugs such as antidepressants, antipsychotics and anti-anxiety drugs. International drug regulatory agencies have issued warnings that side effects including mania, psychosis, hallucinations, suicidal ideation, diabetes, heart attack, stroke and sudden death as well as severe withdrawal. For more information on documented drug side effects visit CCHR International’s psychiatric drug search engine New York, NY (PRWEB) July 18, 2012 Peter Breggin, a leading crusader against the abusive prescription of psychiatric drugs who has been called “the conscience of psychiatry,” presents a pioneering, person-centered approach to psychiatric drug withdrawal in his new book. With increasing evidence that long-term use of psychiatric drugs damages the brain and complicates withdrawal, and with the number of people on psychiatric medication higher than ever, this work comes out at a critical time.
Best of TED Conference Talks: Part 1 If you do not know what TED is, refer back to the original article. Otherwise, enjoy the awesomeness that these talks have to offer! Paul Moller – The Flying Car In the Near Future Just like in the Jetsons, flying cars will be a reality within the next 10 years. Dan Gilbert: Why We Are Happy An expert on happiness, Dan Gilbert explains the notion of synthetic happiness – how our minds morph our interests to suit our current situations, thus making us more content. Oliver Sacks: What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds Sacks goes over his studies of different types of hallucinatory syndromes and what the results reveal about how the mind works with the senses. Vilayanur Ramachandran: On the Intricacies of the Mind Ramachandran also studies syndromes in order to gain greater understanding about how our brains work. Tony Robbins: Why We Do What We Do + The 6 Basic Human Needs Everyone knows who Tony Robbins is… an epic “motivational speaker.” Eric Giler: Wireless Electricity
Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness | Talk Transcript ISEPP Statement on the Connection Between Psychotropic Drugs and Mass Murder - ISEPP Statement on the Connection Between Psychotropic Drugs and Mass Murder The Board of Directors and membership of the International Society For Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry send condolences to the people of Newtown, Connecticut on their horrific losses. Our hearts go out to the parents of the children who were killed and to the families and friends of the adults who were killed. We are calling for an inquiry into the connection between these acts of mass murder and the use of psychotropic drugs. Although the media have cited family members and acquaintances saying Adam Lanza was taking prescription drugs to treat “a neurological-development disorder”, we do not know if he was on psychotropic drugs. But we do know that James Holmes, the Colorado batman shooter, had taken 100 milligrams of Vicodin immediately before he shot up the movie theatre (1). And we do know that: Christopher Pittman was on antidepressants when he killed his grandparents (2). References: (8) Jackson, G.R., (2005).
Slavoj Zizek-Bibliography/The Big Other Doesn't Exist/Lacan Dot Com Why did Freud supplement the Oedipal myth with the mythical narrative of the "primordial father" in Totem and Taboo (T&T)? The lesson of this second myth is the exact obverse of the Oedipus: far from having to deal with the father who, intervening as the Third, prevents direct contact with the incestuous object (thus sustaining the illusion that his annihilation would give us free access to this object), it is the killing of the father, i.e., the very realization of the Oedipal wish, which gives rise to symbolic prohibition (the dead father returns as his Name). And today's much-decried "decline of Oedipus" (of the paternal symbolic authority) is precisely the return of figures which function according to the logic of the "primordial father" from "totalitarian" political leaders to the paternal sexual harasser. But why? However, there is still something missing in the T&T matrix. These deadlocks indicate that today, in a sense, "the big Other no longer exists" however, in WHAT sense?
Behavioral sink The ethologist John B. Calhoun coined the term "behavioral sink" to describe the collapse in behavior which resulted from overcrowding. Over a number of years, Calhoun conducted over-population experiments on rats[1] which culminated in 1962 with the publication of an article in the Scientific American of a study of behavior under conditions of overcrowding.[2] In it, Calhoun coined the term "behavioral sink". Calhoun's work became used as an animal model of societal collapse, and his study has become a touchstone of urban sociology and psychology in general.[3] In it, Calhoun described the behavior as follows: Calhoun would continue his experiments for many years, but the publication of the 1962 article put the concept in the public domain, where it took root in popular culture as an analogy for human behavior. Calhoun retired from NIMH in 1984, but continued to work on his research results until his death on September 7, 1995.[5] The experiments[edit] Influence of the concept[edit]