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Tears in a Bottle: The Uniquely Human Phenomenon of Crying
Crying—the shedding of tears—has physiological, anthropological, and psychological components. It also has a spiritual component. The ability to cry is a precious gift from God. This article briefly explains the science, biology and psychology of tears, and ancient and biblical thoughts on human tears.
The Psychology of Torture
The torturer invades the victim's body, pervades his psyche, and possesses his mind. In a nutshell, torture victims suffer from a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Their strong feelings of anxiety, guilt, and shame are also typical of victims of childhood abuse, domestic violence, and rape.
Metaphors of the Mind (Part I)
The integration of hardware (computer, brain) and software (computer applications, mind) is done through "framework applications" which adjust the two elements structurally and functionally. An equivalent must be found in the brain (a priori categories, a collective unconscious?).
Metaphors of the Mind (Part II)
The relationship between the structure and functioning of our (ephemeral) mind, the structure and modes of operation of our (physical) brain and the structure and conduct of the outside world have been the matter of heated debate for millennia. Broadly speaking, there were (and still are) two ways of treating it.
A Psychological Look at What Causes Attraction - Cracking the Root Causes of Attraction
What causes attraction between men and women? Some couples are attracted to one another for seemingly insignificant reasons, others are so stereotypical as to be cliché. According to psychologists, what causes attraction is the fact that we each assign relative values to each of the following five points.
Neurolinguistic Programming - The Key That Unlocks Psychological Change!
Richard Bandler and John Grinder had set out to model the hypnotic skills of Milton Erickson. They had astounding results. They built a communication model about human "thinking" and "processing" and used that model of how we see images, hear sounds, reproduces smells and tactile experiences in our mind to track and model the structure of subjective experiences.
The Conscious And Subconscious Mind: Influence, Persuasion & Change For Healing With Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy.
Though we have one mind, there are usually considered to be two sections of it: the conscious and the subconscious. The subconscious was termed by Freud the unconscious. Learned habits, such as walking, are permanently installed and normally accessed without conscious thought by sub-systems. Some psychologists identify anything that can be voluntarily called to mind as being in the “pre-conscious”.
The Psychological Reality of Positive Thought and Complex Thought
A whole new school of psychiatry has grown up around the development of positive thinking. The key is intercepting negative thoughts. Surprisingly, no matter how positive we think we are, many of us have internal, mostly negative chatter that ties up thecerebral circuits all day long. Let's take a closer look at cognitive therapy as proof of the concept that positive thought does truly change the brain.
Placebo Effect Is Not Just Psychological
The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, provides the first concrete evidence that endorphins, the brain’s own pain-fighting chemicals, play a direct role in the phenomenon known as the "placebo effect." The Mind-Body Connection is clear. Even suggestion can triggers the release of endorphins in the body.
How to Remove the Psychological Addiction to Smoking
Already since 1972, over 60million people in the USA alone have successfully quit smoking. We now know from the latest scientific research, that although nicotine is one of the world's fastest acting drugs --- the actual physical withdrawal pangs are actually very mild. The pain of quitting does not come from the desire to smoke, but from how we deal with this desire, moment-by-moment when we stop.
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