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Category Archives: Psychology
The Will to Meaning: The Life of Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) was born in Vienna on March 26, 1905, the second of three children in a Jewish family of modest means. His father, Gabriel, worked as a civil servant in the ministry of social affairs, a disciplined man … Continue reading
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Murray Bowen and the Family as an Emotional System
Murray Bowen (1913–1990) was a founder of family systems theory. He moved the primary unit of psychological analysis away from the isolated individual and toward the family as an emotional system. Where the dominant Freudian model centered unconscious drives, repression, … Continue reading
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The Patient Man – Paul Bloom and the Misunderstanding Frame
Born in Montreal on December 24, 1963, Paul Bloom entered McGill University intending to become a clinical child psychologist, having spent his teenage years working with autistic children. The clinical impulse did not survive contact with cognitive science. Under philosopher-psychologist … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs in the UCLA Department of Psychology
Grok says: UCLA Psychology is a large, high-output department in the College of Letters & Science, consistently ranked in the national top 8–12 and world top 15. It is exceptionally strong in cognitive psychology, behavioral neuroscience, affective science, quantitative methods, … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Social Psychologists In America Today
Social psychology’s findings about bias, conformity, priming, and situational influence apply robustly to other people and to society generally rather than being primarily tools for understanding and intervening in the behavior of the undergraduate psychology students whose responses generated most … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Social Workers In America Today
The relationship between client and social worker is fundamentally collaborative rather than supervisory and coercive. Convenient because it allows social workers to exercise substantial power over vulnerable people’s lives while experiencing themselves as helpers rather than agents of state control. … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for American Professional Authority
American professions do not primarily compete over who is most competent. They compete over who gets to define what requires their competence. High-status actors do not say they want power, prestige, or income. They say they are protecting the public, … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Mental Health Authority
American mental-health high-status actors do not compete for authority by openly saying they want power, prestige, or income. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as faithfulness to evidence-based care, compassion for suffering, and responsibility for early … Continue reading
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Robert Caldini vs Robert Greene
Both Robert Cialdini and Robert Greene write about power and persuasion, but they approach the subject from very different angles and with very different intentions. Cialdini is a social psychologist who spent his career studying why people say yes. His … Continue reading
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The Invention Of Mental Illness
What is mental illness? I like Allan Horwitz’s analogy. When your wrist does everything your wrist you should, your wrist is healthy. If your psyche is doing what your psyche should do in your situation, your psyche is healthy. If … Continue reading
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