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The Saga of a Lonely Girl - Jack H. Schick
I guess I feel sorry for Alicia Tolton. She reminds me a lot of a girl I went to high school with. They always print the same portrait of Alicia in the newspaper. They’ve surely got more of her by now--mug shots at least—but they always use the same old one. Maybe it’s the most... Submitted 265 days 10 hours ago.

A Sensed Presence - Jack H. Schick
I have an imaginary friend. When I'm in the California desert, his name is Pokey. He's a cowboy. He's not always the same "person." He's a different guy, wherever I am. Whoever he happens to be that day, we're totally different. We have different opinions and different personalities. There's... Submitted 2 years 53 days ago.

How To Anticipate the Unexpected - - Philip Yaffe
According to the adage, "Travel is broadening". In other words, when you leave your home and go somewhere else, your mind will expand because of the differences you will see. For me, the most valuable, mind-expanding differences are not the big ones that you might be prepared for by reading and... Submitted 3 years 272 days ago.

A Different Outlook On Psychology - - David Tanguay
I do not believe in wasting valuable time attempting to understand the complexity of the human mind. I leave such an assignment to the only one qualified with such authority, the creator himself. I believe most abnormalities in the human species, are due to social conditions. Not through a... Submitted 6 years 305 days ago.

Using Formal Operations - Michael Eza
Adolescent individuals can over come psychosocial and cognitive barriers to their development by adhering to classroom management rules and paying attention to the assignments and subject matters being presented by their instructor. Throughout childhood and into adulthood most theorists agree... Submitted 137 days 5 hours ago.

Sigmund Freud -- Where Are We Now? - Octavia Hansen
Around 1895, Sigmund Freud hung out his shingle and patients began talking their way through problems. Talk therapy seemed to help a lot of people. More than one-hundred years later, people are still talking. In a society that tends to isolate people from one another and specifically won't... Submitted 246 days 11 hours ago.

Mind Control with a Magnet? - Jack H. Schick
My wife’s got this gadget. Well, it’s not really a gadget, I guess. It’s sort of a pillow/neck warmer/massager thing. It’s rectangular, about four inches thick and has a notch that you lay your head or neck down into. It feels like it’s stuffed with dried beans and... Submitted 1 year 144 days ago.

Paying Attention to the "Red Flags" of Negative Emotions- Doing it Our Way - Ella Camp
The question is not- do we have flaws and faults in our character; but what are they, and what do we do about them? For all have flaws; and fall short of the perfection of God. At times throughout life, we will receive notice of our still-abiding shortcomings. Like pop-ups on a computer screen... Submitted 1 year 261 days ago.

Little Girl Wounded- Cry of the Inner Child - Ella Camp
"The mental scars of any type of victimization last a lifetime," says Marilyn Benoit, M.D., psychiatrist and member of the American Medical Association's National Advisory Council on Family Violence. According to the AMA, "Assault, sexual as well as all other forms, is a silent epidemic growing... Submitted 1 year 270 days ago.

How To Cure Clinical Depression:God's Light and Help is Within You - - Paul Schroeder
Gods Light and Help is Within You: Curing Clinical Depression With Affirmations Major depression in many people is, in addition to the imposed HEAVINESS and pain, the same internal voice saying the same thing. That dark side, self same voice, says the same thing, from; "my life is worthless and I... Submitted 2 years 149 days ago.

Five Reasons People Change - - Ken Warren
As a practising therapist for most of my career, I considered myself in the change business - helping people break problem patterns of behaviour. But anyone who works with people knows that not everyone sees the need for change or is motivated to take action. I am thinking of parents I knew... Submitted 3 years 96 days ago.

Pithy Prose: The Wit & Wisdom of Eric Hoffer - - Philip Yaffe
Part 10 of an occasional series I am a collector of quotations. I have been ever since I learned how to write, I mean professionally, not in primary school. I am particularly fond of what I like to call "pithy prose". These short quotations can cover an unlimited variety of subjects: love... Submitted 3 years 205 days ago.

Why Does Time Go Faster As We Get Older? - - Philip Yaffe
It is a widely accepted adage that, "The older you get, the faster time seems to go." But why should aging have this effect? After all, there is the parallel adage that, "Time flies when you are having fun." But as we age, time flies whether we are having fun or not. So what's going on? I... Submitted 3 years 291 days ago.

IQ Test Or IA Test? - Steve Gillman
An IQ test is supposed to measure one's "intelligence quotient," to provide a basic rating of how smart a person is. When we try to measure people in this way, we hope it will predict how well they will perform in either their profession or academic work. Of course we know that this doesn't work... Submitted 4 years 46 days ago.

A Little History From Past to Present Day Psychology - - David Tanguay
The history of psychology as a scholarly study of the mind and behavior dates back to the Middle ages. It was widely regarded to a branch of philosophy until the middle of the 19th-century when psychology developed as an independent scientific discipline in Germany. Psychology borders on various... Submitted 4 years 89 days ago.

How Psychotherapy Possibly Gets it All Wrong - - e
I am not trained in psychology, nor do I completely understand psychological terms. I am strictly speaking in a nonprofessional manner using nonprofessional terms about psychology, and about how I believe psychotherapy fails to address the primary problem regarding the mind. The primary problem... Submitted 4 years 141 days ago.

The End of Experience - - e
What’s happening?" What have you been up to?" What’s going on in your life?" We use these types of greetings every day in lives filled with things to do. Any break in these nonstop activities is uncomfortable; when someone asks what is going on in our lives, it’s not cool to say “Nothing." We... Submitted 4 years 310 days ago.

Karma Simplified (Part 3) - - e
Karma can be imagined as a psychic record of all our desires that impels us toward the activities and actions that we are inclined to perform. Karma colors each consciousness that is created moment-by-moment by mind, and we act accordingly. We establish habit patterns of greed or giving, hatred... Submitted 5 years 39 days ago.

Karma Simplified (Part 1) - - e
When someone harms us, its natural to strike back an eye for an eye. Or, is it turn the other cheek? Jesus may have had a different slant on things when he disagreed with an authoritative paternal God Jesus may have understood karma. There are hints that his lost years acquainted Him with... Submitted 5 years 39 days ago.

Karma and Quantum Mechanics (Part 2) - - e
Karma, simply stated, is habit patterns cause and effect. Whatever habit patterns we die with will be reborn into another form. Why is this? Its because the habits are left hanging and unresolved. Until we neutralize every one of our strong habit patterns, we will endlessly be reborn into the... Submitted 5 years 46 days ago.

Karma and Quantum Mechanics (Part 1) - - e
From the Buddhist Diamond Sutra, which investigates emptiness: However many species of living beings there are whether born from eggs, from the womb, from moisture or spontaneously, whether they have form or no form, whether they have perceptions or they do not have perceptions . . . all... Submitted 5 years 53 days ago.

Uncovering the Illusive Ego - - e
I am Buddhist, and while practicing meditation, I detected thoughts blossoming, one after the other, in a corner of my mind. Each one initially appeared as a single frame but quickly developed into a storyline, a dramatic movie. It might begin with a picture of myself sitting cross-legged... Submitted 5 years 70 days ago.

What factors determine our IQ? - Alexander Roulinski
For the last 140 years, scholars have been preoccupied with identifying the exact factors that influence one’s IQ. The numerous studies on the subject have led most scientists nowadays to the belief that one’s IQ is determined by a variety of both genetic and environmental factors, although there... Submitted 5 years 97 days ago.

How Do We Define Intelligence? - Alexander Roulinski
For centuries, people have been trying to define intelligence. However, a universally agreed upon definition proves to be elusive so far. To some, intelligence is the ability to acquire new information and to adjust to new circumstances, while others regard the skills to solve complex problems as... Submitted 5 years 97 days ago.

Teacher Classroom Management Survival Skills: Ideas to Manage Unmanagable Students - Ruth Herman Wells
"Nothing seems to work with that child!" Have you ever said those words? If you work with very out-of- control students, chances are you have said those words more than once. You were right. Nothing was working to rein in that youngster. In this article, we'll explain why nothing worked, and... Submitted 6 years 235 days ago.