Psychiatry and Psychology

hi everyone. i am in real trouble these days. i feel shame to tell it to anyone. i think my phobia of flying insects in getting out of control. its more like madness then phobia. i have severe anexity, pain in chest , dizziness , and cant control my self when i see cockroch , moth , butterfly , dragon fly or anything except mosquitos and housefly. daily life has become hellish. i cant even bath peacefully. sometimes i had to run out of half bath. this is not joke anymore. can any of u suggest me something? there are no pshycologist near by so forget that. can u suggest something which i alone can do?

Just wondering if anyone caught this paper published last week in Science. See here for a modified version. It's very interesting, check it out. "Our intuitive psychology also contributes to resistance to science. One significant bias is that children naturally see the world in terms of design and purpose. For instance, four year-olds insist that everything has a purpose, including lions ("to go in the zoo") and clouds ("for raining"), a propensity that Deborah Kelemen has dubbed "promiscuous teleology." Additionally, when asked about the origin of animals and people, children spontaneously tend to provide and to prefer creationist explanations..." Paul Bloom…

Does anyone know if there's a book or something that explains why some people are rude or arrogant or insulting or condescending or anything like that? It's not that I actually know anyone like that right now, I just thought it would be good to know why some people are mean when I meet them. I assume it has something to do with how they were treated as children; not that that excuses their behavior. Anyone know of anything like that? Thanks in advance.

Disinterested knowledge is play dough As far as knowledge goes I would say that our brain is filled with fragments and parts. A part is a collection of fragments and occasionally other parts. A part has coherence, i.e. organization. That organization can be meaning induced or science induced. A science induced part has scientific organization; scientifically organized means a collection organized about an objective concept. A meaning induced part has coherence about a subjective meaning. This part has coherence because there is a meaningful juxtaposition of the part with me. The meaning induced part is special because it has importance to me; it has a mean…

Has anyone ever wondered about the psychology behind procrastination? Its something we all do without thinking about it, but I sometimes wonder what mechanisms are responsible for such a thing. Especially since we all know that it doesn't really do us any good. I personally find that it is a temporary solution to anxiety...

This is a question I've always wondered about. Sometimes I've tried using positive thinking to bring myself out of a miserable mood - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I think I'm one of those people whose thoughts are more burdened by emotions than the other way around. My first question: are there any studies that show that positive thinking can alleviate bad moods to a higher degree than would be expected from a placebo effect? Second question: are there any studies that show a causal relationship (thoughts effecting mood) rather than just a correlation?

Has anyone watched this? What do you make of it?

I want to introduce myself. I have always perceived Psychology to be only about Abnormal Psychology. I also never thought that I could earn a degree as an Indian person. I look forward to studying Social, Personality, and Organizational Psychology in graduate school. I have just completed my first year as a Psychology major undergraduate. I have taken Introduction to Psychology, Theories of Personality, Social Psychology, and Human Sexuality. I have visited this forum when they didn't have a folder for Psychology. Sometimes I get bored but I find that talking in clubs is not necessarily productive. I find that writing allows a person to analyze their thoughts and as …

When I was an architecture student in the 70's, there was exciting work from Oscar Newman, Jan Gehl....then CPTED. There seemed to be a lot of common ground between architecture and the social sciences. But today, these two disciplines seem to be very far apart. Gary Evans lamented about this 10 years ago "....much of the initial impetus for environmental psychology came from the mutual desire of social scientists and designers, particularly architects, to work together to create buildings that would work better for people. Unfortunately that initial enthusiasm has since waned, at least within the United States". Any change since then? Is there any new work I should loo…

Hi, friends, I am looking for the manual of the Full Luscher color test. English or Spanish. - not the short 8 color version. The Spanish version is called: "Manual Luscher", Manual para el uso clínico y no clínico del Test de Luscher. It is written by Dr. Nevio Del Longo and published by Consultores en Desarrollo Organizacional CDO, from Santiago de Chile. I am willing to trade a very complete MMPI-2 software (scoring and interpretation) and a very complete 16PF-5 interpretation software for the book (pdf or word). please respond directly to my email juan.perez@operamail.com thanks, Juan

Unconscious thought forms 95% of all thought In the 1970s a new body of empirical research began to introduce findings that questioned the traditional Anglo-American cognitive paradigm of AI (Artificial Intelligence), i.e. symbol manipulation. This research indicates that the neurological structures associated with sensorimotor activity are mapped directly to the higher cortical brain structures to form the foundation for subjective conceptualization in the human brain. In other words, our abstract ideas are constructed with copies of sensorimotor neurological structures as a foundation. “It is the rule of thumb among cognitive scientists that unconscious thou…

Making meaningful connections I have, in the last 24 months, been studying two disparate sciences, which have ‘magically joined-hands’ for me in a meaningful way. I have been studying cognitive science by Lakoff & Johnson, and psychoanalysis by Becker. Psychoanalysis uses the unconscious as an instrument for therapy and for comprehending the nature of our species. Cognitive science provides us with empirically based scientific theories that illuminate how the unconscious manages to be such a dominant factor in human behavior. These sciences represent, for me (perhaps not for you because they may be interested knowledge to you), what I call disinterest…

The one discipline that, sad to say, has hitherto remained virtually untouched by any concern for the environment or the human-to-nature relationship is psychology. You will search in vain in the texts and journals of any of the major schools of psychology—clinical, behaviorist, cognitive, physiological, humanistic or transpersonal—for any theory or research concerning the most basic fact of human existence: the fact of our relationship to the natural world of which we are a part. Any thoughts on whether your relationship with nature is or should be a genuine concern?

High School Heroes I suspect it is in high school that we get a real taste of what the hero system is all about. This is, perhaps, our first taste of what socialization, self-esteem, and heroism really mean to us personally. Each high school seems to offer some means for becoming a hero. Unfortunately it seems that the hero slots are few and they usually accentuate physical attributes. In one high school football is king of self-esteem, in another it may be basketball, in another it may be baseball, in another etc. There are other hero slots that are filled by those with ‘good looks’, ‘witty personality’, ‘has a car’, etc. Most students must find their own me…

Internet Forum: a catalyst for change I claim that the educational institutions of all Western democratic nations are very conservative. They are designed to foster the status quo. As such they are focused upon graduating individuals with the means to maximize production and consumption. Our technology has provided us with the capacity to easily slip into a condition that will end human life. We must provide a means for our citizens to quickly recognize this fact and to develop a new path for human enlightenment following the end of school days. Only with a significant advance in our general intellectual sophistication can we hope to develop a basis for res…

My question has to do with a scene from the documentary "Jesus Camp". Here's a link to a preview: There's a brief scene in this where children appear to be having convulsions or epileptic seizures or something. You can see this between 1:40 and 1:45. I've seen this happen before with people who get all caught up in the religious experience. What is this? Do scientists know what's going on in their brains/bodies/minds to make this happen?

Sapiens are fulfilled only in play Properly understood, Freud’s doctrine of infantile Xuality is a scientific formulation and reaffirmation of the fact that childhood innocence, as displayed in their delight with their body, remains wo/man’s indestructible unconscious goal. Children on one hand pursue pleasure and on the other hand are active in that pursuit. A child’s pleasure is in the active pursuit of the life of the human body. What then are we adults to learn from the pursuits of childhood? The answer is that children play. “Play is the essential character of activity governed by the pleasure-principle rather than the reality-principle. Play is ‘pu…

I have been suffering from severe migraine pain and at time I just go mad for it. My husband surfed out a product called “Topamax” in internet. Does anyone have information on the product?

Ego says, HOLD IT, TIME OUT! The ego is our command center; it is the “internal gyroscope” and creator of time for the human. It controls the individual; especially it controls individual’s response to the external environment. It keeps the individual independent from the environment by giving the individual time to think before acting. It is the device that other animal do not have and thus they instinctively respond immediately to the world. The id is our animal self. It is the human without the ego control center. The id is reactive life and the ego changes that reactive life into delayed thoughtful life. The ego is also the timer that provides us with a …

Have you ever had an experance, maybe while listening to some music, or being around a cirtain person, playing a game, doing an activity or seeing a sight. Where you feal a fealing that is hard to describe, It's hard because it has no name, It's not like love or hate, like happy or sad or hot or cold. It's something as of yet unnamed. It's something you can maybe only experance in that one circomstance and you don't know if anyone else has ever expearanced it or if you will ever know what it is called. Maybe it happened in a dream and the circomstances cannot be recreated or it no longer happens as it faded a little each time you tried it. Maybe an index of names ough…

Iv'e stumbled over from the Physics side of the forums to air an idea about the nature of thought and Imagination. Im going to use the word "I" a lot as I am not shure who thease would apply to although Its probbebly not just me. When I am asleep dreaming the enviorment around me is contructed from pure imagation. I often have no recolection or constucting it with conscious thought and have little idea what will hapen next. When I imagine things when I am awake I often consciously think about what they should look\sound like and what should happen, this is conscious thought with little actual imagination. If however I imagine standing on a grid of square t…

i only know briefly about these two theories. i have been asked to compare and contrast the two theories and so far i have only come up with very little. * Both theories have many and valid criticism. * Psychoanalysis suggest that we have no control over our behaviour and is determined by the unconcious. Humanistic theory, on the other hand, gives humans psychological freedom. * Psychoanalytic theory says most of our motivations based on sex. Humanistic says we are motivated to grow and mature as people. Are there any other similarities and/or differences that you guys know and want to share? thanks in advance.

The introduction of evolutionary theory in psychology over the past several decades must essentially revolutionize the fields of psychology and psychiatry. It proposes a system of ultimate explanations (Why questions...see Tinbergen's levels of analyses) to take the place of the previous ascientific explanations given by the more traditional psychoanalytic explanations of behavior (I find it interesting these theories are still being taught to graduate and medical students when the existence of Freudian forms of egos has no physiological basis). The historical dilemma posed by psychology is the failure to explain why behaviors occur. Psychology has traditionally expla…

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp I'm INTP (Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving).

I am a first timer to this system. I hope to get your valued opnions to a very basic question. I am a first year student in Psychology in my first Psychology course...so this is basic stuff for the more expertise students in this area. I value your insight...so please go easy on me... I want to gain more understanding of what this statement means in more depth. "Learning in all such realms breeds hope" this comes from an excerpt in powerpoint an additional learning tool for this course. I want to know more and could you direct me to research more of who wrote this...