Psychiatry and Psychology

Hi, I'm a journalism student writing a piece on the connection between mental illness and music. I thought I'd post a few questions, and see if anyone was willing to give me a hand in my research for the piece. Sorry if some of the questions are misguided - I'm not a scientist and everything I know is based on research online for the article. If you'd like to share your opinions on anything mentioned below, I'd be greatly appreciative. Many great artists - musical and otherwise - have bouts of mental illness. Do you believe it a case of every genius has a 'touch of madness', as Aristotle put it, or just that it is more likely that those with disorders tend to b…

https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/sussex/healthprofessionals I am currently studying at the University of Sussex and am conducting research for my Health Psychology MSc. I would be really grateful if you would spend less than 10 minutes completing my online questionnaire by clicking on the above link. ***By completing the questionnaire you will be entered into a draw to win £50, and you will also be contributing to valuable psychology research*** In order to take part, you must be fluent in the English language and also work in the healthcare profession. Please contact me by emailing eloise.harris@sussex.ac.uk if you have any questions. This research is being…

I have been taking some interest lately in NLP - neurolinguistic programming and positive thinking in order to counteract a pretty screwed-up childhood, the memories of which I have suppressed for a while. I reckon, I am relatively sane and mature but I have to change the script that runs through my head and keeps me condemning myself whenever I make a mistake. Now I consider that there is no easy solution to this problem, no short-cuts and no simple acrostics that can turn it all around, but .... I am tempted to read these easy-fix websites which can turn you into a millionaire (mostly by selling books on quick-fix solutions) and solve all your problems with a few…

So, I was reading my New Scientist today and came across a book review for Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic bullets, psychiatric drugs, and the astonishing rise of mental illness. Surprisingly, while the book's about how psychiatry is to blame for the rise in mental illness, the reviewer gave it a positive review and said it was "frighteningly persuasive." So I headed to the Internet and dug up some stuff. Here's a paper by the author in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry: http://psychrights.org/articles/EHPPPsychDrugEpidemic%28Whitaker%29.pdf Some quotes: It goes on from there, and I suggest you take a read. I'm going to see if I can get …

I saw this - Looks like they've staged a murder and then their gonna see if peoples statements add up - should be interesting.

Sometimes I really, really, just want to seriously hurt some people to the point of non existence.

http://clubhouse54.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32665 semi NSFW due to a man boob pic for the life of me I cannot figure out what happened here. And no I'm not Icefire on that site, and I have not posted in this thread.

This is just a logical observation but it seem to make sense. Small children with attention disorders may not learn attention control from time outs. The duration of the punishment exceeds their attention span. But a quick crack to the butt, has a fractional second duration, so this should be within their attention range. Has anyone ever plotted changes in the social policy away from spanking, and the increase in ADD's, to see if this correlates? When I was younger, my brother and I were a year apart. He was much more hyper and I was more contained. Time outs work well with me. I would use that time to sulk or worry. But with him, almost immediately he would see it a…

I have always wanted to do a research topic about effectively judging people when you first meet them, essentially educated prejudice if you will. Now that I have the chance to do a speech for English what would be some good ideas for the speech? I already intend to do digit ratio theory to evaluate the probabilities of the consequnces of hormonal imbalances in humans. I intend for the purpose of this speech to be mostly entertainment and a little informative. Do you guys know any psychological theories based on physical appearance and behaviours that indicate the personality of the person?

I am fleshing out an idea I have of using a systems view of identity to create a model to assist clinicians in assessing and formulating treatment plans and goals for clients whose problems seem to stem from lack of identity breadth. I wonder if anyone here has ever come across any literature that looks at identity as a system and/or takes a systems view in the treatment of individuals rather than couples or families. I am having trouble finding relavent research material and wonder if I am perhaps not using the correct search terms or looking in the wrong places (via the journal databases-- proquest annd ebsco-- at my grad library). Thanks in advance for your h…

i dont know much about clinical depression but what i do know its not good if you know more on clinical depression please reply and dont think i am dumb i am only in 5th grade:cool:

I'm in a debate with someone on another forum about whether AD(H)D actually exists. He thinks it doesn't. I argued a point with him that studies have shown that those with AD(H)D are statistically more likely to have smaller right frontal lobes than "normal" people. He countered that with studies that show that ritalin and other amphetamines cause shrinkage in the right frontal lobe (implying that the small frontal lobes in AD(H)D people weren't actually small before medication). I want to know, first, if this is right, and second, if he's right in thinking that there are no neurological differences between AD(H)D people and "normal" people.

Are there any comparative studies of the prevalence of schizophrenia, depression or other mental illnesses over the years?

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The late Father of Sexology and Johns Hopkins Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Pediatrics Dr. John Money first described the phenomenon of "pedophilic genius," in which great achievements are inspired by their creator's love of children. As examples, Money cites Lewis Carroll (author of Alice in Wonderland) and J.M. Barrie (of Peter Pan). Their masterpieces have in turn inspired many succeeding generations of children. It is fairly clear that Jackson was both a pedophile and a genius, but does he qualify for Money's category? It would need to be established that his love of children (or more specifically, boys) contributed in a major way to his creative inspi…

Okay, so last night, I was up really late, until about 3:30AM local time. I finished my homework for my college classes for today, and then I decided to meditate. I occasionally meditate, just whenever I really feel like it. I don't do it too often. This time, however, I had a really good idea on meditation. I went to this one website that allowed me to play an audio clip of different natural sounds. I made the website play a sound of soft ocean waves, and then I turned off all the lights in my room, except for a blue LED light on one of the fans in my computer. The room was almost completely devoid of light, though I could still make out the posters on my walls a…

Hello, i have a question in relation to ptsd and personality disorders. Is it possible for aspd/npd to co-exist with ptsd? On the face of it, it would appear to be unlikely given that ptsd sufferers generally experience guilt/fear and deep emotional response to tragedy and so forth. If a PD such as NPD and/or ASPD is suspected (following diagnosis tests and observation) does that indicate the pre-existence of the personality disorder prior to the brain trauma (that manifests as triggers/stress reaction and so on) Or, can ptsd (in particular combat ptsd) create personality disorders? Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Hello, i had a dream a weeks ago, and still remember this vividly. It has confused me in every way, i have spent a very long time contemplating its meaning. First I see my self (or to what I assume to be myself) Carving a three pointed star comprised of scalene triangles rotating clockwise. All corresponding points are linked by punctures, into the wood of an old oak desk in my house. I look deeply into this symbols and a quicksilver mass rises out of the center, twisting and writhing, I proceed to look into the mass and see a horrific eye pulsating, growing and shrinking, pupil dilating and encompassing the whole eye. It is all so confusing, I could really use so…

Hi, I'm volunteering for Camp Quest and this year our theme is "The Mind" but I can't come up with a challenge for the week. The kids will be getting into groups and working on the challenge throughout the week and need to have something to show for it at the end of the week (some kind of presentation to the rest of the camp). This will be happening alongside talks and workshops about neuroscience, philosophy of mind an psychology so they should have access to some broad knowledge to base their challenge projects on. It needs to be simple It needs to involve lots of different types of skills (some people doing arts and crafts, some people doing drama or res…

An interesting article will appear in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science. It seems that power does corrupt. I know... I know. You're thinking to yourself, "Gee. Thanks, Captain Obvious." However, the results are still pretty interesting and lend some further insights into the phenomenon. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091229105906.htm 2009 may well be remembered for its scandal-ridden headlines, from admissions of extramarital affairs by governors and senators, to corporate executives flying private jets while cutting employee benefits, and most recently, to a mysterious early morning car crash in Florida. The past year has been mar…

Andy Thomson, a practicing psychiatrist, uses his knowledge of the human mind and countless neuropsychological research studies to make the case of how religion and belief in god are by-products of our evolved neural architecture. Below is his talk titled 'Why We Believe in Gods' which he presented at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia. Press play. Use full screen. 1iMmvu9eMrg&e Let us know what you think. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged If you understand the psychology of [why we crave] the Big Mac meal, you understand the psychology of religion. We evolved adaptations for things that were crucial and r…

Is there such a thing as a factor of intelligence for collecting trivial facts? My wife seems to have something like this. Everytime I learn something interesting and I tell her about it, she replies "Yeah, I knew that". I tried testing her a while back to see if she was just saying that to seem smarter than me: I made up some crap as if it were fact and told her about it. She passed the test - she admitted not knowing about it. So I think there must be some factor of intelligence for picking up on mundane facts. Is there?

Anybody here know about Kim Peek? He is a world famous savant. Basically he has agenesis of the corpus callosum (meaning that he is lacking a corpus callosum all together), and that is believed to give him the ability to memorize vasts amount of information and numbers. In particular he has an intense interest in postal zip codes. He scores well below average on the IQ test though, and has very poor social and self-help skills. I actually watched the video on it and what I found interesting is that with a corpus callosum, it is impossible for us to do the things he can do. However, Kim's ability to reason is virtually non-existent, and he still lives with his dad. …

If you are a California resident and are at least 18 years old, please visit http://www.genderstudy.info to complete an anonymous questionnaire. The study was approved by the institutional review board (IRB) at Alliant International University in San Diego, where I am a doctoral candidate in Marital and Family Therapy. Thank you, Jennifer Mato, M.A. jmato@alliant.edu Dissertation Chair: Narumi Taniguchi, Ph.D.

This NewScientist article is about recent experiments giving brain-scan evidence for how people's beliefs and the beliefs they attribute to God are related. Excerpt: Thoughts? IMO, this was already pretty obvious. Just look at the religious attitude regarding women or slavery throughout the ages. This studies findings don't really surprise me at all.