Before the advent of psychotherapeutic drugs in the late 1950s and early 1960s, people with serious mental illnesses – in particular schizophrenia and severe depression – spent much of their adult lives in large state hospitals. While doctors and researchers still do not have true cures for such disorders, advances in treatment and deinstitutionalization have […]
Patrick Mahony – The Adoption Conundrum
The process of adoption can often be a source of joy for parents who are otherwise unable to conceive and for children who are yearning to be part of a family. However, Patrick Mahony knows that deep-seated issues can be rooted in the period of the child’s life before that adoption took place. Some studies […]
"Letters to a Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke, translation by Joan M. Burnham
When you read the exquisite poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, you imagine that the poet knew numerous elusive, intuitive truths. Well, guess what? He did! And he poured them out to a virtual nonentity, a guy named Franz Kappus, who was really not so much a "young poet" as a new military officer. Kappus wrote […]
The Different Schools of Psychology
There are different schools in the study of psychology namely; the structuralism, the functionalism, the Gestalt psychology, the behaviorism, the psychoanalysis, the humanism and the cognitive psychology. Structuralism deals with the study of the structure of the mind as well as on the elements that are associated with it. The advocated of structuralism used the […]
Heard By a Bird in Phoenicia
"Teachers retire, and become students." – Amos Oz Did you see the cloud shaped like a cashbox over Big Indian last Friday? A Letter Dear Local Explorer: A recent study at Stanford shows that speaking to your swimming pool keeps it cleaner! Even as little as one minute of […]
THE MEANING AND UNDERSTANDING PHILOSOPHY
THE MEANING OF PSYCHOLOGY The word "psychology" is the combination of two terms – study (ology) and soul (psyche), or mind. The derivation of the word from Latin gives it this clear and obvious meaning: The study of the soul or mind. This meaning has been altered over the years until today, this is […]