Psychiatry and Psychology

Like the title says

There is no reality, only perception. Perception is your world. What is it you may ask? It’s the way you see the world. The way you live in it and make your decisions in it. Every different individual has her/his own perception and hence her/his reality. This is what creates an individual. Now perception comes from experience and learning. It’s a chain meaning that what you learn will weave your imagination and experience. This experience will force you to make decisions on what you like to learn, which makes all these spontaneous. This dynamist - within and without – makes your perception variable/dependent on your experience and learning and that’s reality, which turn o…

i'm currently going for a duel-major in Psychology and Anthropology(Paleontology) but i'm starting to have 2nd thoughts on psychology. my original intent was to go into grad school into a clinical psychology using specializing with the neo-freudian theory/approach but numerous things just don't seem right anymore. first of all are these redundant reiterations of dead and useless theories, secondly there is no neofreudian school in my state, and i no longer see myself dealing with patients and going : "well, i believe you're stuck in the falic state" or "tell me more about your childhood and the influence your parents had on you" , etc......... and if i can get some of…

This may be a completely absurd idea, so i apologise in advance but i heard somewhere that every conscious moment is stored as a memory in your mind somewhere. That if you just tapped into the right place through hynosis or whatever, that you could recall something 10 or 20 years ago that wasnt even particularly striking at the time. For example i read an article in a credible science magazine that special advanced hynotists could get crime witnesses to remember what they say years previous even if they didnt think they took in any detail of the event. In other words, that everything you've ever seen/been conscious of is stored somewhere in your mind? Firstly…

not in the professor X sort of way two part question... What i am wondering is this; do you think that you are in "control" of what you are thinking? Meaning, are your thoughts completely determined by outside processes? Or can you control, to some extent, what you are thinking about? if you can control what you are thinking about, then where does this impitus for control come from? If you belive in a god, then i think this answers the question. But if you do not belive in a god, then where do you think this abililty to control your thoughts comes from? just curious, i have been thinking about this for a while now, and i don't really know the a…

It might seem a reasonable question to ask. But it now seems clear that, on average, males and females have the same IQ. I have taken a number of psychology courses that have point this fact out and moved on without further mention. What I would like to do is look at what the undergraduate psychology courses (at least at my school) tend to leave out. First of all, average IQ scores cannot have average differences for sex. This is a matter of test construction. IQ tests purposely eliminate questions that lead to sex biases in the score. The question of average differences in IQ becomes meaningless given this fact. What isn't meaningless is the fact that males and femal…

Hi, Instead of starting a bunch of threads, I'm going to post a small collection of articles I've recently read. Some of the articles I found interesting, and some I am skeptical about and need further information, such as the works of Professor Kevin MacDonald: ______________________________________________________________ Mainstream Science on Intelligence The Wall Street Journal December 13, 1994 Since the publication of "The Bell Curve," many commentators have offered opinions about human intelligence that misstate current scientific evidence. Some conclusions dismissed in the media as discredited are actually firmly supported. This statem…

I'm having difficulties interpreting the two-tailed results from a independent t-test. The test statistic shows: -2.459 and the p-value is 0.020. Can you have a negative test statistic? But it still means it's a significant difference right? Because the p-value (0.020/2 = 0.01) is smaller than 0.05. I'd appreciate your help, as I'm a total muppet when it comes to the statistic parts of psychology

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It's a fairly new discovery, not even recognized as having physiological (thought just to be psychological, caused by variable factors, a definate cause was not known to be the reason for narcolepsy) roots until it was discovered in dogs, who obviously do not fake it, or participate in behavior that goes against natural rhythms (before it was identified doctors would tell narcaleptic's they needed to get more sleep at night). My question is, why did we just barely discover narcalepsy? If it's not a new thing, why isn't it noted in history? If it is new, why? Why did the disorder suddenly start to occur in humans and dogs?

Hi all I was just having a little discussion with my father over dinner. I made it pretty clear in the past I want to start my studies in psychology next year, and eventually go for clinical psychology. But my father just told me it's hard to find a job in psychotherapy nowadays. If they find work, he says, they're subordinate to psychiatrists. Now I'm starting to doubt. How much development is there in a psychologist's career? How hard is it nowadays to start and hold an independent practice successfully? Would it be wiser for me to start my education in medicine and go for psychiatry instead?

I`m sure some of you are aware how "negative thinking" can bring about illness (Psyho-somatic, I beleive it`s called), and these illnesses can often result in REAL physiological conditions. hypochondriacs for instance sometimes get the disease they fear most as a direct result of their negative thinking and worry about it. there are certain tribes that can actualy WILL themselves to die and they do within hours, purely by thought! so I have 2 questions. 1) do you think the Opposite can be made to work, and in effect keep you illness free and thus extend your lifespan? 2) how long do you think you will live? Input please

I need your point of view on this. What would be your universal solution for Heroin addiction?

Can a person be manipulated by playing on there personality and traits?

Please, for a mini-project: what IS the estrus cycle?

I read a book by a psychic named Beverly Jaegars about ESP, enhanced sensory perception. She said that her psychic powers and stuff were because she practiced on enhancing her 5 senses constantly. It's weird but she did things with colors to try to see if touching things could give you the sense of the color of the object. She did memory exercises and stuff. She did imaginative exercises by visualizing. But what was weird was this. She said there were blind people who sewed. They could sense the colors with their hands. She said there were blind painters who could do the same, perhaps not with touch but with smell. You know Helen Keller? She was blind and deaf but she…

What actually makes the Oedipus syndrome occur?

Anyone had a feeling of "falling through the bed?" I read a book lately about astral projections. It described falling as a phase of reaching a "super-sub-concious" or "soul traveling" and what not. What's weird about it is that I have had that experience before several times. Have you? What is it? Is it astral projection? Right when I'm falling, I jolt and wake up. I'm awake when I'm falling. Or at least I'm in a semi-conscious state. On second thought, I may be both sleeping and conscious at the same time. I remember that I dreamt about being a rabbit on the plains. I could faintly hear the music on my radio. Then my rabit self fell into a hole. I jolted and woke up.

I've always wondered why psychology isn't a part of the national curriculum of junior/senior high schools like English, maths or geography. There's so much you learn about yourself and others, and I honestly think it will make you more tolerant if you know yourself better and why others act the way they do. There might be a reason why it's not in the N.C, so I'd be happy if someone were to enlighten me

on my mothers side of the family, both my great and grand fathers respectively have thick, lustrous heads of hair. My father has another very thick head of hair but my fathers father began to lose his around 35. Im paranoid of losing mine, i continuously check myself and am convinced that the part on the crown of my head is slowly thinning. The gene that codes for baldness is derived from the x gene on the mothers side so i should be safe... unless my damn genetics had a mutation....

your way of mentaly thinking about or remebering things, how do you "see" them or rather how do your thoughts represent themselves to you?

What does consciousness consist of? Sensations, thoughts, memories, ideas and emotions. The defining characteristic of any ‘thought’, whether it be an evaluation, intention, fancy or whatever, seems to be its mode of representation. What is common to all thoughts is that they are represented either as (i) imagined sensations, or (ii) silent words. Yet silent words are actually imagined sounds. Thoughts, therefore, are imagined sensations. Yet delcarative memory actually consists of imagined sensations as well. The same can be said for ideas, which are represented as pictures, sounds or words in our minds. As pointed out already, these are all imagined sensations. We h…

I know I`m not the only one (I`ve asked others this and they confirm similar experiences). ever listened to a song that you`ve not heard for decades and then one day you do and you get like Flashbacks? I don`t know a better word for it. but you can rem things that you`de forgetten and stuff. the same works with certain smells too (I find it does for me anyway). what is IS it? is it some sort of hypnosis at the time or something? anyone else get this happen to them?

Test: can you be programmed? > > > > > >MIND TRICK? (Or not) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Have you ever wondered if your mind is normal or different? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Well, do this little mind exercise and find out at the end! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Free will or synaptic wiring? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >You be the judge. Check out the following exercise, guarantee…

In which exact location do you think that your consciousness be. In the brain of course but at least I think it's in the centre of the frontal lobe of the brain.