So I am slowly reading Current Psychotherapies by Corsini and finding it quite interesting. I am reading the bit about Jung right now and his typology. As those of you who find the MBTI interesting know, the MBTI is based on Jung's types ( Read more... )

There has been some reporting on this issue, and the reporting I've seen completely fails to raise the points in siderea's post to the extent that it gives a completely different view of what the proposed changes are. As I have mentioned what I had read to at least one person and I've seen some people talking about the proposed change, I'd like to suggest ( Read more... )

I'm holding tabs open because I want to post links. So, have a bunch of links so I can close my tabs.

Shakespeare in the Bush - learn the true meaning of Hamlet.

What can I see? people ask me that all of the time and it's hard to say. But my main problems are a combination of proliferative retinopathy (what they call "diabetic retinopathy") and ( Read more... )

The subject is a Jones in the Fast Lane reference, a fun game, by the way. At least, I liked it. It is an old game, so not very impressive by today's standards, but a bit of humor in it. It's basically a game of life. You need to get a job, buy groceries, try to accumulate education (to get a better job) and money and such. You set your goals at ( Read more... )

I've seen this reposted by other people on my friends list, so some of you will have seen it, but many of you will not have. I highly recommend reading it as I found it fascinating. siderea's post on attitudeReally, give it a try. It's written to not go over the head of non-psych or non-sciency people, but it's got some good information to interest ( Read more... )

And one last psych link. My father sent me this link to a New York Times article on William's Syndrome. It's long and you need to login, but it's really interesting. It's a very small genetic abnormality that creates a fairly consistent set of personality traits. People with it have trouble understanding social situations, but really enjoy talking ( Read more... )

I found this psych link that ms_danson posted rather interesting, link. It's about the ability to predict whether or not a marriage will succeed or fail.

Update: and might as well toss in a related link. I've heard about this before. It's about the importance of contempt as an indicator, along with some other info.

I stumbled across this during a web search for something totally different... it hit some key words, but in a completely different context, but it was interesting, so I read it and will share it. link. The first article on anger management was particularly nifty, I thought. I don't fully agree with everything in all of the articles, but I figured I ( Read more... )

This question was sent to me through another forum, but it is interesting, and so I am posting it here to see if anyone has any information ( Read more... )

This is an incredibly fascinating article. I recommend you read it. It's cool and interesting.