By definition psychology is, “The study of the psyche,” which means, “the soul”, and psychologists have no idea of what the psyche is or if it even exists. Most psychologists don’t believe the soul exists outside of their personal religious affiliations. Therefore, unlike other sciences, psychology has no subject of focus and dismisses the very […]
Cognitive therapy, pioneered by Aaron Beck, is a structured, time-limited and pragmatic approach to dealing with a variety of psychological disorders. Most therapists using this approach employ an exploratory, discovery model designed to ferret out maladaptive thinking, cognitive distortions, and faulty underlying beliefs which are based upon prior experience.
Cognitive therapists are interested in working with […]
An ancient method of bringing a person (works with animals as well) in a state in which all somatic senses are eliminated. Only a part of human brain stays awake - the part in charge of understanding the hypnotist’s speech. Maybe not precisely understanding, but receiving vocal orders directed to subconsciousness, which pass by the […]
A man who sticks to one and the same belief is not likely to develop. He will never be able to learn something which contradicts his belief, he will make no progress in his mind’s and scope’s development, he will remain the same all his life – and this life will be boring. Doubting is, […]
As a therapist, one thing which has always sickened me is the way medically minded folk impersonalize peoples’ suffering. They justify their doing this as that they are being impartial and scientific, as if symptom relief were the holy grail of healing, and psycho babble, the requisite sacred text.
I see their doing these things as […]
We human beings are visually dominant creatures. We draw many conclusions based on visual cues alone. Our eyes tell a very different story about the world around us than the story that is told by our ears.
“Over the past few decades,” writes Malcolm Gladwell, “the classical music world has undergone a revolution… [To avoid favoritism […]
It has been speculated postulated by a participants of our Online Think Tank that men often while in conversation or debate about things such as sports, sex or physical activity create brainwaves and light up similar areas of the brain during fMRI brain scans as they do when competing in sports.
Although we have not done […]
You never know what kind of conversations will come up in an Online Think Tank. Often men and women converse differently and often scientists and engineers converse differently than entrepreneurs, bureaucrats or project managers. You can see the issues involved in such things and indeed it makes for a somewhat lively group. But, indeed that […]
It was not my fault…. or so they would have you think. I’m talking about people who have a real problem with accepting any responsibility for their own role in their own personal situations or actions.
How many times have you been in a situation where you knew you were absolutely in the right? And despite […]
From the very childhood most parents teach their children to be obedient and stress that obedience is a virtue, and disobedience is a flaw. That is the opinion accepted in the society. There exist a lot of religions that teach us to be obedient. But is disobedience really a demonstration of someone’s rottenness or is […]