Psychiatry and Psychology

Hello everybody Came across an excellent forensic psychology website http://www.all-about-forensic-psychology.com/ Hope you find it as interesting as I did. Lee

Don't know if this is the right section I was wondering if even on the slightest level of seriousiness do you have a fanasty you'd like to live. I am talking maybe science fiction, movie type idea, if so what are they like, use that imagination of yours! Personally I'd like to live in a world that would be similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_level_(Dragon_Ball) Corny I know but, cool none the less.

Why do rapists rape? Why are some people aroused by discomfort in others? Is there an evolutionary explanation? Is this behavior learnt?

I would like to have a discussion about whether or not intelligence is significantly influenced by genes. This is something I'm doing for a school project and I haven't really done any research on it yet. Some people have told me that intelligence is in the genes. However, I think it's quite a silly notion. I mean, both of my parents are pretty dumb--my dad can hardly figure out how to turn his computer on! And yet, I'm very intelligent. Children get their genes from their parents. So if intelligence is in the genes like my dumb friend says, why/how could I be so much smarter than my parents? I told her to answer that for me and she paused and got visibly upse…

I suppose this question goes in this section. If not, please move it. On more than one occasion, I've seen preformers poking pins in themselves without appearant pain or bleeding. In fact, they poke pins through themselves. That is, they stick needles into their forearms and it comes out the other side. Then, they stick needles into their cheeks and pierce it all the way through the other cheek. They'll do this to their tongues, ears, and any other flab of skin that isn't obstructed by bone. They do this show absolutely no signs of pain or hesitation. They don't even bleed! One performer, when asked how he does it, said that he "controls his perceptions" - I assume he…

As I say on my blog twimath.blogspot.com, numbers suggest different colors to me. I think that these colors may be memories of abstract patterns that are embedded in the unconscious. I have tried to produce several of these patterns and have posted them on my blog.

Morality is a system of value judgements that attempts to define natural human behavior and distinguish this data set from unnatural human behavior. Humans are capable of both kinds of behavior. Without morality, the unnatural and natural become relative, with unnatural having the advantage, requiring less reason and will, and the ease of unconscious compulsion. For example, it is easier to steal than work for a living. It is easier to lie, at times, than to always tell the truth. It is easier to cheat than play by the rules. It is easier to divorce than work through difficult times. It is easier to overeat than eat heathful. It is easier to to drink too much than mod…

I'm reading a book called "Beyond ADD" by Thom Hartmann. In the chapter "Morphic Resonance: The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon", he talks about a phenomenon called "remote shared learning" which involves animals learning behavior from other animals whom they have no physical contact with whatsoever. Rats are trained to perform a task in America, and rats in Scotland end up learning to perform the same task with fewer trials than it took those in America. Rats in Australia also end up showing this "remote learning". Here's the passage:

This might seem like an odd question, but has the cause of ambition in an individual been pinpointed, or is it due to a number of factors, so in short, what makes somebody more ambitious over another. I'm very hungover today, so please excuse me if this is a dumb question.

Here's a question that's been bugging me for a while. Why do people (I should just single out myself, because I'm not sure if everyone is this why) seek out information that could potentially hurt them?... talking emotionally here. Is seeking this information due to some inante desire to know gossip, regardless of potential damaging effects? Why wouldn't people rather be blissfully ignorant?

Why are some of us extremely susceptible to addiction and others are not?

I wasn't sure if this should be under biology or psycology so I guessed. Anyway I recently made a comment in a thred about the intelligence of non-human animals: So the more I think about it the more I think there is something to this. How much could we learn about animal psycology by trying to guage and graph the ratio of the drivers on an animals behavior including instinct, intelligence, and emotion. What if anything could this teach us?

Hi there, I am new to this place. I am not sure if this has been gone over before. If it has kindly point me to where I need to go to look this up. I have looked up Lucid dreaming and this doesn't seem to fit in to it completely, but it may be a form of it. I have dreams that I remember on a nightly basis. All of my dreams seem to be powered by an emotion. When I wake in the morning I still feel that emotion. If the dream was sad, I feel sad for part of the day, if it was happy I am in great spirits. There is always music playing in my dreams. I always wake up singing a song that came from my dream. In my dreams there are usually a lot of people, a lot of ti…

Last night I had a dream that I was going out on a date, which is something I’ve never done in real life. I was at a nice restaurant, and I walked towards a table where a beautiful girl wearing a nice dress was waiting for me. I realized the girl was my best friend from high school, who was also the only girl I had ever liked in my entire life. Once I saw who I was dating, I realized that it had to be a dream and there was no way this could possibly be real. I felt like I had woken up but I was still inside my dream. I had complete awareness of my surroundings, and had complete control over my actions. It was like I was conscious in my own dream. Even stranger, …

I picked up a few social psychology books at my local college library and began to skim through them. I noticed many of them were made in the 1960s. One of the books I grabbed it a supposed introduction to social psychology, but it's dated about 1967 or so. I was wondering when a person can consider a certain psychology book dated. In other words, how many years until psychology and learnings are considered foolish and obsolete, a.k.a. not mainstream learnings. The reason I picked out some social psychology book is because I'm preparing for a class I'm taking in the fall. I can't get ahold of the book offered for the class anytime soon, so I've become dependent on a f…

I've been having trouble understanding what introspection is exactly. I can't really tell what it is in psychology. Is it about feeling out how your body senses something, while tracing the inflicted part to the brain? I don't quite understand. Does anyone know a descriptive site, other than wiki/google, that tells me about introspection in detail?

I know this is a fairly known topic, deja vu dreams. It's happened to me a couple times when I was a child. I often just ignored it, not really caring about it, as I heard it is common. Memories, I suppose, can also be very vague from a dream so my mind could have "tweaked" it to fit into a relation with an experience. That was my reasoning for ignoring it. However, a bit ago, something really odd came up. I was dreaming one day about this particularly set up gymnasim. The day after, I woke up and thought wow that would be a really cool idea for video game level or 3d architecture, as I believe the most unique creativity comes from dreaming. I eventually blew off the idea…

a question my Wife wants to know, Why do children Cry when they`re tired and yet fight their sleep, they seem to moan and cry even when presented with the opportunity to Sleep (like being put in bed and tucked in etc..). it seems so Ilogical/Irrational. anyone actualy KNOW the answer to this?

Is self adornement by heavy tattoos an indicator of some sort of mental pathology ? In all those TV programs on Supermax prisons , almost all the inmates are covered with tattoos . Could there be a connection betweeen that & criminality ?

Oprah had a program on the aftermath of bariatric surgery for several women . The main point ( assumption ? ) raised was that being overweight is due to an ( eating ) addiction & if that addiction is frustrated by the surgery , then other addictions such as alcoholism , drugs , hyper sexuality etc may take over . Does any reader have any info on that --- is it a general phenomenom ? I am overweight ( 300 lbs ) but due to being on diabetic medications ( metformin & insulin ) & have been considering such surgery.

This thread will be the first of many ideas that will start with a model of the human mind and end with arguments regarding ethics, morality and life in general and eventually an anonymously published contemporary philosophy book. Feel free to poke and prod all you want, as your criticisms will help better organize the ideas. If you see these ideas show up anywhere else they were stolen unless I say otherwise (I will come back and alter this if the ideas are to be published) Intro Since people are capable of coming to mutually exclusive conclusions regarding questions to which there is only one answer, the human mind must be flawed. Therefore IMO understand…

I was on the bus to work this morning, reading my David Bohm book and thoroughly enjoying it. Roughly halfway through the journey, a guy with a large backpack and some other stuff sat behind me and the bus pulled away. I could then hear this loud clang on the back of my seat, like something large and metal was striking the seat...this clanging continued. I was about to turn around and suggest that he stopped the clanging, but then I realised it was my choice to read a book on the bus, and it was daft of me to make any preconceptions about not being disturbed in public. However, I just couldn't stop getting annoyed by this incessant clang. I was about to turn arou…

Ii had a dsicussion with some friends about this and been thinking alot about it. My question is, why do we sometimes laugh easily/alot when we are tired/sleepy from a strict scientific view? This slight euforic feeling that makes alot you talk about laughable which almost resembles a "high".

Unfortunately I am aware of a 14year old boy who for most of his life has:- * Tortured animals (two pet animals have died as a result of his cruelty). * made unprovoked attacks on smaller children, and elderly & disabled adults. * Set fires in his home and elsewhere. * Urinated in inappropriate places in his home, (also throws containers of urine). Is this child a sociopath ? The "triad" of animal cruelty, pyromania and enuresis seems to fit. Is there any treatment which could reform his character ? (I have heard that sociopaths are incurable). Is it appropriate to medicate this child with Ritalin ? (wouldn't this stimulant be counter-productive if …

I haven't been able to find any forums that deal with this without trying to tie it in with reading minds. Let me know please. This is a big problem for me and I need a place to go that have others like me. EDIT...If someone knows of another place, could you please post the link? Thanks Bettina