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Category Archives: Psychology
The Science of Likability: 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology
Patrick King writes: * Memories have long been found to be context-dependent, first by Godden and Baddeley in 1975 in their breakthrough publication “Context-Dependent Memory in Two Natural Environments: On Land and Underwater,” which means memories are heavily linked to … Continue reading
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How Do You Spot Toxic People?
Here are some highlights from the excellent Jackson MacKenzie book, Psychopath Free (Expanded Edition): Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People: 1. Gaslighting and crazy-making. They blatantly deny their own manipulative behavior and ignore evidence … Continue reading
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#224 4-24-19 Is Depression Heroic? Is It Even A Disease?
00:00 Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity 08:00 KMG arrives to discuss depression 1:24:00 Ben Shapiro Book Club: Ordeal of Civility https://www.amazon.com/Ordeal-Civility-Levi-Strauss-Struggle-Modernity/dp/0807036099 1974 Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Jews and American Politics … Continue reading
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NYT: ‘He Needs His Pretty Little Face Bashed In,’ a Therapist Tells an Undercover F.B.I. Agent
From the New York Times: The New Jersey psychotherapist wanted revenge, and, as luck would have it, one of her patients had revealed in his therapy sessions that he was a former member of an organized criminal gang, according to … Continue reading
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NYT: Friendship’s Dark Side: ‘We Need a Common Enemy’
MP3 From the New York Times: Take the new evidence that people choose friends who resemble themselves, right down to the moment-to-moment pattern of blood flow in the brain. The tendency toward homophily, toward flocking together with birds of your … Continue reading
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The American Psychiatric Association issues a warning: No psychoanalyzing Donald Trump
I hate it when people use psychology as a weapon. I had an ex-GF who did that and I did not appreciate her diagnoses. Have I done to others this thing I hate? Yes. Washington Post: Donald Trump had a … Continue reading
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Tom Wolfe On Freud
Stuart Schneiderman writes: In a 2006 lecture he delivered at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Tom Wolfe offered some remarks about Freud. I report them without commentary. First: In medical terms, Freud is now considered a quack. But his … Continue reading
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What Are The Causes Of Insecurity?
Dr. Gerald Stein writes: Insecurity is in the nature of being human. It is a commonplace, even if most people make a serious effort to disguise it. Too many things to know, too many to learn, too many rejections — … Continue reading
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Maladaptive Daydreaming
When real life becomes too difficult, I drift off to fantasies that some prestigious group will invite me to speak to them about my life. Then I deliver the whole speech in my head and an hour or two or … Continue reading
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It Turns Out That You’ve Married Your Parents!
Therapist Mark Smith: Most people who come to marital counseling think the problem is that the other person is a jerk and if we can just get that person to a therapist, surely the therapist will see my side of … Continue reading
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