psychology Archive
Positive psychology and its promotion of optimism have become firmly established in the popular imagination now. The idea that people who are optimistic will fare better than people who are pessimistic has received a great deal of coverage and has …
Language is consciousness. The Swedish word for business is närings – liv. It means nourishment for life or nurturing life. In English the word business means “to be busy” – “a state of being much occupied or engaged”, or “what …
Poorly framed descriptions of psychotherapy serve as a pretext for the requirement that the efficacy of therapy requires demonstration through randomized control trials. Such restriction involves an inadequate conceptualization of the nature of psychotherapeutic engagement but is an understandable reaction …
What brings me back to psychoanalysis? What do I want to teach in the semester to follow? I’ll start with and come back to Freud. Freud had two commitments that remain mine. The first is to a vision of our …
and how chasing your tail makes sense. Policies are guides to how we'd like to live our lives. Maxims are the behavioral logic that guide proper description."If the situation calls for a person to do something he can't do, he …
Unfortunately, life got ahead of me this summer as I went into a “full steam ahead” mode to get the word out about my book, interspersed with visits from three of my grandchildren. I apologize for not having kept up …
By: Isabelle Mansuy, Ph.D. Exposure to traumatic events in childhood or early adolescence can change a person and perturb her life for many years. It can also have an impact on the following progeny and affect a family across …
Adaptation in Evolution and Behavior: A short conversation among Descriptive Psychologists.A week of so after first posting, “ Playingfor the Fun of It….”, I added the following paragraph. Since I was arguing that play is intrinsic and involves intentional actions …
…the fun of playing…. As a concept, it cannot be reduced to any other mental category. Johan Huizinga, Homo LudensConsciousness is the first example of the selectiveness of enjoyment in the higher animals. Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of ThoughtA Zilch …
The Neurobiology of the Gods (2012) first gained accolades for grounding CG Jung’s ideas in modern neuroscience. Yet Goodwyn’s explanation for why we create symbolic imagery makes this an important book not only for analytical psychologists, but also for evolutionary …