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		<title>Hypnotic Nature of Treatment Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article will consider the viability of the many psychotherapeutic methods on the market. In newspapers, journals, on the internet, there is a profusion of advertisements for people to train as psychotherapists (I am using the term to cover counselling as well) or undertake therapy. Its achievements, rarely tested, are glowingly itemised.]]></description>
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		<title>Genius: What Is It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all believe we know exactly what 'genius' means. To quote (Collins Dictionary): '(person with) exceptional ability in a particular field'. At times it is just used for someone with talent.

This article will consider the nature of 'exceptional' individuals, how we perceive their special nature and simply if they are or were exceptional or that perhaps other phenomenon was evident to explain their appearance.]]></description>
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		<title>History of Positive Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 11:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most psychologists believe that it began in 1998, when Martin Seligman chose it as the theme for his term of president of the American Psychological Association, though the term originates with Maslow, in his 1954 book Motivation and Personality. Seligman stressed that clinical psychology had been consumed by only mental illness, echoing Maslow's comments. Research into positive psychology might be traced back to the 4 P.]]></description>
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		<title>Good People, Bad People, and Those In Between &#8211; All Share a Common Theme!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was talking with an international acquaintance who enjoys studying such interesting topics as sociopathic and psychopathic behavior. Yes, I told you it was intriguing. Anyway, she has come to the conclusion after some 50-years of studying such folks during her life-experience that essentially most people are good people, but don't kid yourself she reminds us, there are evil thinkers amongst us! Well, I doubt that comes as any shock to any of us, but I think you might find our conversations relevant.

She explained to me that she believed that 75-82% of people globally are normal, that is to say; "have the normal range of emotions, and are basically good human beings."

Okay so, that is a good jumping off point to look into this topic further.]]></description>
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		<title>The Human Condition And Genetic Memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being born into a world in which nothing is known outside of the empirical knowledge gained from a slight understanding of the physical tangible observable universe, the youth are taught a collective objectified version of reality which holds no real bearing or relation to the inner depth of the human psyche and spirit, as posited by the greek philosopher Plato in his Allegory of the Cave, and the theory of the simulacrum. In this condition in which people are subtly forcebly separated from their own nature, from all angles, and unwittingly made into being something that they are not by their culture, the impressionable teenage mind is made to be incredibly disturbed and unhappy with it's existence, as it can only think and feel in terms of what it knows from the aforementioned empirical knowledge; this is called "The Human Condition".

The Allegory of the Cave posits in this world, people have been symbolically bound and tied in a dark cave, where they only see the shadows projected onto a wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them. The poor wretched people who are bound in the cave get into a game of identifying the shadows on the wall based on names that they have given them, and so over time the one who wins the game is not the one who can accurately describe what is being seen, but rather the one who can match the shadow to the names given to it by the poor blind cave people; this is exactly the condition of the majority of people in the world in which we live in.]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Jung&#8217;s Discoveries and New Research &#8211; Learn Why Your Dreams Are Sources of Valid Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people in our world completely ignore the value of the dream messages. Dream interpretation is considered by them as an attempt to possibly discover something meaningful inside confused images that have no meaning.

Other people think that we may discover something important thanks to the meaning of our dreams, but they ignore that there is a unique method of dream interpretation that accurately translates their meaning. Only Carl Jung could discover the right code for a perfect dream translation, as I prove in my work.]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["I am really not only a man of practice whatsoever....I'm practically nothing but a conquistador by temperament, an adventurer."

(Sigmund Freud, letter to Fleiss, 1900)

"If you deliver forth that which can be in you, that which you produce forth will be your salvation".

(The Gospel of Thomas)

"No, our practice is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science are not able to give us we are unable to get elsewhere."

(Sigmund Freud, "The Long term of an Illusion")

Harold Bloom called Freud "The central imagination of our age". That psychoanalysis will not be a scientific concept within a strict, rigorous sense of this word has extended been established.]]></description>
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		<title>The Psychology of Solar Flares Discussed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may not have ever considered it, but there might be some sort of correlation between solar flares and human behavior. Consider if you will some of the evidence for solar system happenings and human behavior, for instance, we do know that on very hot days [heat comes from the Sun] there are more road rage calls into the Highway Patrol, and you can even study this for yourself, when the weather is very hot and muggy, or just plain wicked hot you will notice more aggressive driving, and see more people using their middle finger gestures more.

Now then, try this out sometime because I have done this. When you witness bad driving behavior around our town, or out on the highway, do what I do - I always go home that night and look up on the Internet to see if there has been any major solar flare activity at SpaceWeather [dot] com.]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Smart &#8211; They Are</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychology is an inexact science...the realm of empirical judgment as much as of quantitative measurement. There aren't any formulas guaranteed to produce specific results in shaping human behavior if only somebody follows prescribed steps faithfully enough. However, I have ample experience to suggest that if you can get a very bright...gifted...child to believe that his intelligence is perfectly ordinary and then turn him loose to interact and grow up with lots of other kids who are normal, ordinary, average...who fit in readily...and permit him to wonder about all the comparisons he can't help making, if you deny him the opportunity to ask honest questions about why he feels so different from other kids...you ought not to be surprised at having helped create a very confused and unhappy young person.]]></description>
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		<title>The New Mission of Psychology &#8211; Finding What We Can Do to Be Happier, Healthier and More Resilient</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 11 years, the field of psychology has been on a new mission, one of identifying, researching and teaching the skills that lead to well-being and resilience. Called "Positive Psychology," it's a rapidly growing branch of scientific psychology that studies the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

In 1998, Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania was elected President of the American Psychological Association (APA). At the time, Dr.]]></description>
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		<title>The Epistemic Gap, Psychology, and the Scientific Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1972, Thomas Nagel first introduced what is now known as the "epistemic gap" amongst contemporary philosophers. It was described in his paper "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" and the gist of the argument was this: one cannot fully understand the mind unless one is experiencing that mind.

Nagel took the example of a bat because bats are so fascinatingly different than humans; they hang upside down most of the time, use echolocation, they are nocturnal, and most eat nothing but insects. Could a human ever convincingly claim that he knew what it was like to be a bat? Nagel didn't believe this was possible - I agree.

Can the same be true amongst humans? Can another human fully understand the mind of another, or, does one have to be in the first-person to understand the mind more clearly?

Philosopher Frank Jackson wrote a paper in 1982 titled "Epiphenomenal Qualia" where he introduced the famous thought experiment known as Mary's room.]]></description>
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		<title>The Epistemic Gap, Psychology, and the Scientific Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1972, Thomas Nagel first introduced what is now known as the "epistemic gap" amongst contemporary philosophers. It was described in his paper "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" and the gist of the argument was this: one cannot fully understand the mind unless one is experiencing that mind.

Nagel took the example of a bat because bats are so fascinatingly different than humans; they hang upside down most of the time, use echolocation, they are nocturnal, and most eat nothing but insects. Could a human ever convincingly claim that he knew what it was like to be a bat? Nagel didn't believe this was possible - I agree.

Can the same be true amongst humans? Can another human fully understand the mind of another, or, does one have to be in the first-person to understand the mind more clearly?

Philosopher Frank Jackson wrote a paper in 1982 titled "Epiphenomenal Qualia" where he introduced the famous thought experiment known as Mary's room.]]></description>
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		<title>Psychology of God and the Devil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one intuitive moment, when the waking mind merged with the dreaming mind, and the left brain sparked with the right brain, these ideas were forged. It was as if ancient, primitive thought had collapsed back like a wave of quantum energy on to the shores of modern consciousness. Make no mistake.]]></description>
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