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		<title>Confessions of a Full-Blown Introvert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's something I've always known. It's the thing I've always struggled with. They told me for years that if I wanted to be normal I had to be more of an extrovert.]]></description>
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		<title>Biological Plasma Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The well known English writer George Allen Knot has authored a scientific book called "Journey by other ways". In this book of fiction Knot has penned such a vehicle that helps man travel thousands of miles within a few seconds. This aircraft travels with the speed of light and one fictitious person in the book drops many travelers at their desired destination on the way.]]></description>
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		<title>Passive Aggression &#8211; An Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Passive-aggression refers to subtle, often renounced, resistance that has multiple causes. While this phenomenon originated as an attempt to classify covert, non-compliant behaviour, it can be a trait, behaviour or personality disorder. The broader view of passive-aggression is because of the acknowledgment of the deeper, multiple roots of this behaviour.

As behaviour, passive aggression is held to be contextual or situational.]]></description>
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		<title>Bipolar Disorder Information &#8211; Answering Faulty Television Characterizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television shows are suddenly very interested in people with Bipolar mood disorder with an emphasis on the inability of people with bipolar disorder to function in the world or as crazed killers. How can people who have the disorder protect themselves from being labeled as criminally, mentally ill? The answer is to arm themselves with information and share it where appropriate.

Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders that is determined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally high energy levels and one or more depressive episodes. The high energy levels are called mania unless they are not as severe and then they are called hypomania.]]></description>
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		<title>The Scientific Literature of Dream Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school in psychology. He was born on May 6, 1856 and died on 23 September 1939. During his life time of 83 years, he has found many novel theories in many fields.]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference Between Crazy and Eccentric</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 19:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be tempting to think that some terms used in language are synonyms; that it is a case of 'six of one and half a dozen of the other'. The difference between the terms 'crazy' and 'eccentric' may seem like a trivial issue. However, in the realm of psychology, this has far-reaching implications.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology &#8211; The Science of Human Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia describes psychology as an academic and applied discipline that involves the scientific study of human mental functions. A person who is practicing psychology is known as a psychologist. Its scope is related to the role of mental and emotional functions in individuals and groups in general, and it can also help explore the physiological and neurological processes going on in a person.]]></description>
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		<title>Alfred Adler&#8217;s Inferiority Complex and Carl Jung&#8217;s Method of Dream Interpretation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 11:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alfred Adler cared about the human tendency to pursue superiority, and the ego's desires. He discovered that this tendency provokes an inferiority complex to the individual who sees himself in an inferior position, because the desires of his ego remain unfulfilled.

While for Sigmund Freud the person's sexual instincts and immoral desires were always considered as the hidden reasons that would cause mental illnesses, for Alfred Adler these hidden reasons were always related to their ego's permanent desire to prevail in their social environment, having a superior position, and being admired by everyone.

This means that when an individual is despised by their social environment, he starts developing an inferiority complex that relates everything that happens in his life to his feeling of inferiority, interpreting the intentions of the people around him, and all their actions, as if they were attacks against him.

The individual with the complex feels that everything is done on purpose, to make him feel inferior, supposing that everyone has always bad intentions.

On the other hand, he starts making absurd projects in order to attain the superiority he desires, pursuing a superior position with so much obsession that it becomes a mania. He cannot think or care about anything else.

This sick psychical condition provokes him many behavioral abnormalities, besides provoking many sad situations to his daily life, and many conflicts in his relationships.

Adler's theories and psychotherapy are very interesting and helpful, but they seem to be incomplete when we compare them to Carl Jung's analytical psychology.

Jung discovered the right method of dream interpretation, which exactly translates the meaning of dreams, respecting the unconscious logic, and I continued his research, discovering the meaning of many dream symbols, besides finding all the answers for the questions that he could not explain.

The best psychiatrist you can find when you feel you are losing your mind or you are depressed, is the wise unconscious mind that produces your dreams, without a doubt.

The accurate and instant translation of the dream messages will put you into contact with your wise natural doctor, and you'll be able to better analyze your inferiority complex, or your obsessive tendency to have a superior social position.

I had to delay too much until I could simplify Carl Jung's method of dream interpretation for you, translating thousands of dreams for many people during 19 years, but today you can have a global vision of your psychical content and your psychological problems reflected in your own dreams thanks to the accurate translation of all dream symbols, based on Jung's discoveries, and on my own discoveries by following his method.

You'll become a psychologist yourself, acquiring a third eye that can see everyone's psychical content only by observing their behavior, besides being able to build the most confident and original personality of the history of mankind..]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology Studies Through Scientific Dream Interpretation &#8211; Balance and Behavioral Abnormalities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The knowledge obtained by interpreting the meaning of dreams according to the scientific method of dream interpretation works like free psychotherapy for the human being.

All dreams contain important messages of the unconscious mind. Today they can be easily translated into comprehensible words and sentences, because we know precisely how the dream language and the dream logic work.

Psychology studies through scientific dream interpretation reveal to us many basic points of the dreamer's personality and life. The unconscious mind is a natural doctor, sending to each dreamer infinite messages that contain objective information, guidance, warnings, advice and predictions.]]></description>
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		<title>Cognitive Dissonance Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term cognitive is defined as "of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes." The word dissonance means "disagreement or incongruity." Cognitive Dissonance Theory, therefore, is the theory of how and why we lie to ourselves. According to an experiment published in a 1959 edition of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, which was conducted by L. Festinger and J.]]></description>
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		<title>The Bathroom in Dreams &#8211; The Difference Between Gender Identity Disorder and Homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bathroom in dreams represents the dreamer's sexuality. This means that we can predict and correct possible abnormalities that may provoke them gender identity disorder if we analyze the meaning of dreams where the bathroom frequently appears.

Dreams where someone dies in the bathroom indicate that an important part of the dreamer's personality starts controlling their behavior and provoking sexual abnormalities. Dead people in dreams represent parts of the dreamer's personality that cannot serve as examples to be avoided, because the dreamer has already adopted the negative behavior that characterizes them.

The bathroom in dreams can have a positive meaning when it is big and clean, because it indicates sexual balance.]]></description>
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		<title>How to Know If Someone is Mentally Ill &#8211; Signs of Behavioral Abnormalities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mental illnesses are sneaky diseases that don&#180;t appear on in the conscious surface and that are not apparent immediately in the patients&#180;environment. However, various behavioral abnormalities gradually take off their mask of "normal person", reflecting their neurosis, psychosis, schizophrenia or similar mental illness.

If you want to understand whether someone is mentally ill before waiting for various facts that will reflect psychological abnormalities in order to verify who they really are, you have to learn how to analyze the human behavior and observe the signs that indicate lack of balance, and absurdity.

This is very important, because you may trust a schizophrenic without knowing what you are doing, and decide to get married to a person that will only torture you, or have a negotiation with someone who is totally absurd and will ruin your business, but may mislead you with false impressions of sensibility and honesty.

There is a very big danger concerning business relationships with people you don&#180;t really know, especially because mentally ill patients never show signs of abnormality in their work, but only in the moments when they are alone, or when they are with their family, and so on. So, it&#180;s harder to discover signs of schizophrenia in a business partner than to perceive them in a future husband or wife, for example.

However, the bitter truth is that if you are not well informed, you will never be able to perceive important signs of abnormal behavior in a certain person, even if you are near them for many hours, because they can hide their absurdity from your eyes very easily.]]></description>
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		<title>Myers-Briggs Personality Pluralism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year is 2009 and it has been over a century since popular consciousness has widely accepted the fact that humans are just another type of animal. Curiously, even as humans are increasingly accepting of political and cultural pluralism, there is still insufficient focus on how pluralism in general arises from differences in breeds of humans. Populous mammals like dogs and cats have a number of breeds that cluster by physiological external differences like size and internal neural differences like aggressiveness, friendliness, and task specialization.]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Side &#8211; Psychology of the Insane</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abstract:

In recent years psychology has tried to uplift the human spirit with lots of popular psychology terms such as, "Positive Psychology" or the numerous books released to tell the masses how to behave to lead a fulfilled successful life from talking about parachutes, ten steps to something, the mired of "how to" titles and much more. Most are nothing but misguided pop psych or a fad of the moment. Can life be as easy as reading the right book and following some basic concepts and everything is going to be OK for you and me? This paper is different, we shall explore the "Dark" side of the human mind - that part that sees disengagement, destruction, vile acts as part of the everyday human psyche that emerges in us all from time to time - that part that finds excitement, glee and pleasure in the dysfunctional part of our existence.]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of Nightmares &#8211; Dream Interpretation As a Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All nightmares are serious warnings for the dreamer. They are so unpleasant that many times the dreamer tries to avoid sleeping in order to stop seeing them, but their importance is crucial for his or her safety.

Nightmares reflect real dangers existent in the human brain and psyche as well as in the outside world.

They have the general meaning of an alarm, working like all alarms that try to protect you when someone is trying to steal your store or your car. They try to protect you from losing your mental health first of all, and many times, from losing other things that belong to your daily life.

As an example of a very important nightmare I can mention the case of a dreamer who participated in my summer offer of free professional dream translation in 2008.]]></description>
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		<title>Removing Abnormal Behavior</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abnormal behavior is defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) with criterion that includes the following: unusualness, social deviance, faulty perceptions or interpretations of reality, significant personal distress, maladaptive self-defeating behavior, and dangerousness. Abnormal behavior has many definitions, but in most cases a combination of these criteria defines abnormality. Historically, it has been shown that people with abnormal behavior disorders can be very creative, making contributions to science, mathematics, arts, sports, and politics.]]></description>
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		<title>An Appreciation of Martin Seligman, Father of Positive Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My hope to live life in the light of optimism rather than one in pessimistic darkness was advanced by the work of Martin Seligman, a world renowned authority on depression and abnormal psychology. I became aware of him in 1999 as I prepared my master's thesis. His early book Learned Optimism was a catalyst that provided me with deep insight into positive ways of thinking and being.

Seligman's efforts are aimed to help us gain insight and to understand the why's of our chaotic condition.]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychology of Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On why we have dreams and the functions of dreaming 

The psychology of dreams has been explained either with the psychoanalytic interpretation of dreams and the psycho-physiological process of dreaming. Thus there are two distinct schools in the psychology of dreams - one school of thought believes in the relation between REM sleep and dreaming, the role of dreams in learning and dreams as a result of random neural firings further leading to random images that may not have any significance; and the other school of thought believes that dreams occur as a result of unconscious and repressed impulses and could be explained with psychoanalytic symbolism and in turn also explain psychic phenomenon or even lead to understanding the causes of mental illnesses.

According to Freud, 'dreams are the royal road to the unconscious', in the sense that dreams could be analyzed in a way that will reveal the hidden impulses in the unconscious. Dreams may thus reveal who we 'really' are, what we 'really' want and how we want to attain these desires.]]></description>
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		<title>Attraction &amp; Connectivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say when we answer a question it poses two more. That when old mysteries are exposed, revealing new and powerful information, this process eventually uncovers even more awesome unanswered questions. Such is the case with what we've discovered in the name of science, best exemplified by the patterns of attraction and connectivity between very tiny, atom, as well as very large, planet, objects, which mathematics helps us explain so well that we are constantly inventing new technological gadgets based upon this new information.

So what are the new questions being exposed? The answer is we're not paying much attention even to what they are-all of which have at least something to do with our personal emotional experience.]]></description>
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		<title>What is Autism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most reputable scientists now believe that autism has existed throughout the history of humankind. Some have speculated that ancient legends about "changelings" are actually stories of children with autism. Celtic mythology is redolent with stories of elves and visitors from "the other side" who steal a human child and leave their own damaged child in its place.]]></description>
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		<title>Is There No Psychic Evolution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are almost completely unaware of the evolution of psychic function. We believe that people of ancient times were exactly like us, as if conscious human nature was born, like Paul Bunyan, in it's present form, without any need for psychic leaps of understanding-perhaps most of which haven't happened yet. Whether as archeologists, historians, sociologists, or anyone studying ancient times, we draw conclusions about motive and state of mind based upon present-time human consciousness, assuming that psychically we always have been like we are today, and always will be exactly the same.

Indeed the entity least studied on planet Earth is human nature.]]></description>
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		<title>Yogic View Of Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychology has been defined as "The science of the mind, or mental states and processes; the science of human nature..." Our Western psychology is a relatively recent science which, although valuable in basic matters regarding behaviour, personality and the general function of the mind, in no way claims knowledge of, or allows for the existence, let alone the study of the soul and spirit of the human being. It has made great advances in the study of human behaviour and mental diseases but has not found answers enough to cope with the mental aberrations which torment society and which, regrettably, are on the increase.

Many of these abnormal conditions of mental disease in the community have been created by drugs of all kinds, chemical pollutants, alcohol and unhealthy nutrition to which there is no answer but by rectification of these negative habits and conditions.

In this regard the Yogic approach offers some assistance. It concentrates upon the individual building and maintaining a healthy body and brain through a healthy lifestyle.]]></description>
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