| Sanjay Srivastava, PhD, professor, department of psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene.
Promising News for Parkinson's Patients
Stanley Fahn, MD, H. Houston Merritt professor of neurology and director, Center for Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders, Columbia University, New York City. He is also scientific director, Parkinson's Disease Foundation, past president, American Academy of Neurology and founder of the Movement Disorder Society. here is no preventive or cure for Parkinson's disease, but research is now making advances in both areas. |
| It appears that there are still reasons to be concerned about the antidepressant treatment of child and adolescent depression," says Alec Miller, chief of child and adolescent psychology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. THE FUTURE
Miller, who is also an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, says that children who are battling depression need more and better treatment options. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Kampov-Polevoy, now a research assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of North Carolina's Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies.
In all, Dr. Kampov-Polevoy has conducted more than a dozen studies showing that a preference for sweets is systematically linked to a craving for alcohol in rats and humans alike. For example, he found that newly abstinent alcoholics preferred sweeter solutions than the control subjects did. |
Robert Anton Wilson
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 Let us remember that Transactional psychology has proven that, contrary to common sense and the prejudices of centuries, our minds do not passively receive impressions from the "external world." Rather we actively create our impressions: out of an ocean of possible signals, our brains notice the signals that fit what we expect to see, and we organize these signals into a model, or reality-tunnel, that marvelously matches our ideas about what "is really" out there. |
Melody Petersen
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 His daughter got a doctorate in psychology. His clients, whom he coaches through the disorder, include a lawyer, a nurse with a Ph.D., and three engineers from Rockwell Collins, a large military contractor that has its headquarters in Cedar Rapids.
"They think some of the greatest minds had ADHD," he said, going on to mention Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franldin, and Bill Clinton. "Thomas Edison and Einstein," he noted, "were both kicked out of school."
This theory—that a pill will unmask the latent genius within you?seemed to come straight out of the ads for drugs that treat the disorder. |
Robert Anton Wilson
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| Many researchers in psychology and neuroscience now share that startling view. As Gurdjieff indicated, the "I" who toils at a job does not seem the same "I" who makes love with joy and passion, and
You can see the above illustration two different ways. Can you see it both ways at the same time, or can you only change your mental focus rapidly and see it first one way and then the other way, in alteration?
"The true essence of things is a profound illusion."
?F. W. |
Stephen Wolinsky and Kristi L. Kennen
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 Stated in Quantum psychology terminology, in order for a problem such as an unwanted emotion to exist, it must possess energy, occupy a space, have measurable mass (solidity), and exist in time (have duration—a beginning, middle, and an end). Examining a problem in terms of these four parameters can provide a far more multi-dimensional framework than the current, binary system of traditional therapeutic models in which problems are viewed in a linear cause/effect relationship. |
| I applied this to Quantum Psychology: you watch the Emotions as energy just to watch and notice what happens, without their being an intention or a goal in mind of it changing or getting rid of it. You see emotions as energy. Just to do it—without any intention!!!
When doing the exercises, watch and notice what occurs as you witness E-motions as made of energy.
As you watch the E-motion, begin to feel it as energy. See the emotion as energy moving in your system. If the emotion has unpleasant associations, the energy has a tendency to get stronger and stronger because it was more repressed. |
| REPPED: Arousing the Giant
For as long as I can remember, my greatest wish was to be able to answer the question "Who am IT' I pursued this goal for over two decades, trampling through every major and minor discipline of Western psychology, Eastern meditation, and even Quantum Physics, as well as side trips into the drugs and "free" sexuality of the 1960's. |
| This theory becomes a major "quantum jump," that Quantum psychology develops to help understand human problem states.
Principle: The observer, through the act of observation, creates, his/her subjective internal response pattern, i.e. their experience.
"This means that how we subjectively experience events, interactions, and our inner self is observer-created ... created by us. This reality suggests a further one: that we, as the observers of our experience, choose how an experience is experienced. |
| This will bring us to Werner Heisenberg' s Uncertainty Principle, "that reality is observer created," and in terms of Quantum psychology, how we create our own experience and interpretation of subjective reality.
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Getting to Zero
The Great Way knows no difficulties except for those who have preferences.
Third Ch'an Patriarch Seng'stan Zero grants existence permission to be.
Tarthang Tulku
Knowledge of Time and Space
R robably one of the most exciting and provocative theories in quantum physics is Werner Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. |
| Since, as Bohm states, "all parts are connected to the whole," I will usepart-(ic\6) to denote psychology' s "part" By identifying something apart from the whole it becomes more solid, more defined, more fixed or more like a part, with boundaries that separate it from the whole.
Since recent research in quantum physics informs us that matter, energy, space, and time are all fundamentally the same, then they can be viewed as waves, as particles, or as both. In The Philosphers' Stone, F. David Peat wrote:
"The only conceivable conclusion was that electrons have a dual schizophrenic existence. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 This chapter, then, provides an overview of the Energetic Integrator system from the view of both physics and psychology. The physics discussion describes the wave dynamics of the Energetic Integrators, showing how NES moves bioenergetic theoty beyond accounting only for the frequencies of the body-field to including a consideration of phase shift. For those readers with less interest in the technical explanations, we suggest that you just dip into sections of this patt of the chapter here and there to get a general overview. |
Robert Anton Wilson
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| Of course, the ideal observer of quantum mechanics remains a creature hooked up to many subtle instruments. In psychology, the "observer" remains a bag of protoplasm, the resultant of genes, imprints, conditioning and learning. The genes presumably appear at random throughout the population; the imprints occur by accident at points of imprint vulnerability; conditioning and learning depend on family tradition, etc. |
Anne Harrington
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 In their time as students and young researchers together, Davidson and Goleman had worked through publications, collaborative research undertakings, and other activities to put meditation on the map of experimental psychology.86 Nothing much had come of those first efforts. But meeting the Dalai Lama, encountering the Tibetan monks on the hillside above Dharamsala, and becoming involved with the Mind and Life Institute: all of these things worked to convince Davidson that perhaps the time was right to try again. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Stanford University conducts the Stanford Prison Experiment on a group of college students in order to learn the psychology of prison life. Some students are given the role as prison guards, while the others are given the role of prisoners. After only six days, the proposed two-week study has to end because of its psychological effects on the participants. The "guards" had begun to act sadistic, while the "prisoners" started to show signs of depression and severe psychological stress (University of New Hampshire). |
Mark Sircus
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 Lack of desire is the chief complaint among women, affecting about one-third of them at some point in their lives, says Cindy Meston, assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.6 How much of this dysfunction is related to magnesium deficiency is anyone's guess but when upward of 70% of all people are deficient in this precious metal of life it is not too hard to make the connection.
Magnesium and DHEA
DHEA -S levels were significantly lower in the men with sexual dysfunction. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 According to the company, he has his Ph.D. in psychology (Source: www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/ dnflash/ nov2004/nf2004l 130_22l4_db042.htm). All of this makes for fascinating reading, and offers a lesson in how quickly a company can seize consumers' dollars with outlandish, unsubstantiated promises (StriVectin's sales topped $30 million in five months!).
© Instant Lip Plumper ($39 for 0.22 ounce) contains menthol, which plumps lips by virtue of its irritating properties. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 I often think how lucky I (FB) was to have gone to public school before the days of its takeover by psychology and psychiatry. To be sure, I and others acted up at times, and the situations needed understanding and were understood by our teachers, and we were dealt with accordingly, without psychology, psychiatry or the drugs. What's more, we learned to read and to do math and if we didn't, our teachers and parents knew the reasons why. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California, and a recipient of the Distinguished Scientific Achievement in psychology Award presented by the California Psychological Association. Back in 1987, while walking in the park and thinking about some personal distressing memories, she happened to notice that eye movements appeared to decrease the negative emotions associated with them. |
| Ray I in psychology Today.
Natural medicine worthy of the name can never ignore the role of stress, nor of attitude and emotions, in healing the body. That's why you'll see stress management mentioned so frequently in these pages. It's as important to healing as anything you can take in a pill form, even if said pill does come from a plant! the last time I looked you couldn't pluck vitamin C tablets from a tree.
Applying the term "natural" to medicine (and cures) is just as difficult and imprecise as it is when you apply it to foods, an area in which the term has become virtually meaningless. |
Anne Harrington
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| Since the end of World War II, however, this populist strand of self-help has been increasingly superseded by a new kind of therapeutic self-help culture in which scientific experts trained in psychology or medicine tell everyone else how to live happier, healthier, and more productive lives.11 Thus Dr. Spock's blockbuster book Baby and Child Care, first published in 1946, translated Freudian principles into do's and don't's for millions of anxious parents. In 1953, Ladies' Home Journal launched its magazine column "Can This Marriage Be Saved? |
| In a conversation with me in early 2007, he mused that:
Alan Watts would be amazed, as would be Carl Jung, at the degree to which Buddhist meditative practices have penetrated Western clinical medicine and psychology in this era, not as some kind of skin graft, but as a deeply personal and serious scientific exploration that has already shown significant benefits to at least tens of thousands of people, but that has little to do with a Journey to the East. |
Jack Challem
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 David Benton, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Wales, Swansea. Benton conducted a variety of experiments on his students, who seemed to be in generally good physical and mental health. He found that their moods improved substantially after they began taking a daily high-potency multivitamin supplement.
Other researchers, including William Walsh, Ph.D., of the Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Warrenville, Illinois, and Bernard Gesch, Ph.D., of Oxford University, England, have consistently found that vitamin supplements can even reduce aggressive and violent criminal behavior. |
Anne Harrington
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| Nevertheless, he also acknowledged equally significant allegiances to Gestalt psychology, clinical neurology, and the existentialist philosophies of both Martin Heidegger and the Jewish theologian Martin Buber (a close friend).36
Weaving all these influences together, Weizsacker's psychosomatic medicine took as its starting point the principle that the patient should be at the center of every clinical encounter, not as an object of medical investigation but as an experiencing subject. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Together, you and your doctor can join forces to use everything that medicine and psychology have to offer to get you feeling better.
What factors, besides a fear of activity, can interfere with wellness? One is focusing too much on how you feel. Monitoring your symptoms and your feelings is normal, especially when you're sick. But there is a downside, especially if you spend a lot of time on this form of introspection. Focusing on how you feel every minute of every day, to the exclusion of other, more positive thoughts that are equally valid, often makes you feel worse. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Department of psychology, University of New Mexico — "Dr. DiClemente offers a comprehensive and fruitful framework to stimulate new professional thought on addiction policy, prevention, research, and treatment."
Natural Highs
Dr. Hyla Cass and Patrick Holford ISBN: 1583331336 www.drcass.com
Review: Jack Canfield, co-author of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul, "Offers ground-breaking evidence that the ability to feel good all the time — naturally — is easily within our grasp. |
Charles Barber
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 It has been observed that Buddhism can be viewed as a psychology as well as a religion, and that Buddha was in fact the first psychologist. Buddhism—2,500 years old compared to CBT's fifty—is based on the Four Noble Truths: (1) life is full of suffering; (2) the root cause of suffering is attachment to worldly things and worldly ideas; (3) it is possible to cease suffering, based on the extinction of and detachment from one's attachments; and (4) the pathway out of suffering is to follow the Eightfold Noble Path, which includes mindfulness and concentration. |
| Blashfield, a psychology professor at Auburn University who has written a great deal about the politics of psychiatric diagnosis, told me. Indeed, the DSM-IV and the revised edition, DSM-IV-TR, together have sold 1.4 million copies at about eighty dollars apiece,52 making it one of the more lucrative books in recent publishing history. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 Journal of Operational psychology i972;3:35;rpt.Autism Research Review International 1993:2.
21 Heaney RP. Long-latency deficiency disease: Insights from calcium and vitamin D. Am J Clin Nutr. 2003 Nov;78(5):9i2-i9.
22 Hoffer A. Editorial. J. Orthomolecular Psychiatry i974;3(i):34-36.
23 Hoffer A. Mechanism of action of nicotinic acid and nicotinamide in the treatment of schizophrenia. In: Hawkins D and Pauling L (eds.). Orthomolecular Psychiatry: Treatment of Schizophrenia. San Francisco, CA: W.H. Freeman, 1973; 7=1359-76. |
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