Tuesday, 19 June 2007

Case notes - Obsessional Jealousy

Obsessional Jealousy: A brief review and case series from India

http://www.priory.com/psychiatry/Morbid_Jealousy.htm

Monday, 18 June 2007

The Psychology of Fatherhood

A topic I am getting ever more interested in.

This is an article is from Time.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1630551,00.html

Disordered better at self diagnosis

A good article on the paradox of those with 'disorders' are better at self diagnosis.

http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=864

Brain scans of Buddhist monks' show meditation alters structure.

and also the functioning on the brain asw well.

An old article but quite interesting.

http://psyphz.psych.wisc.edu/web/News/Meditation_Alters_Brain_WSJ_11-04.htm

Just sat my Psychology exam..........

and it was very hard...so fingers crossed.

Thursday, 7 June 2007

The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz

Thanks to York University, Toronto, Ontario.

First published in American Psychologist, 15, 113-118.

The Myth of Mental Illness added fuel to the Anti Psychiatry movements claim that Mental Illness is just a label.

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Szasz/myth.htm

Mulitple Personality tests

Personality Tests: Test yourself silly with this "all in one place" website.

http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html

Tech entrepreneurs suffer from hypomania

A brave Psychologist says Technology entrepreneurs frequently experience hypomania. i.e. They are mental (?!)

http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2018

How to get good nights sleep.....

Good sleep = Do less work !

http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20031028-000007.html

How to Detect Lies, become a Lie detector

A small article on detecting lies, could be pretty useful !

http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lies.php

The Keys to Happiness

Psychologists handed the keys to happiness to the public, but many people cling to gloomy ways . Surveys show Americans are no happier today than they were 50 years ago despite significant increases in prosperity, decreases in crime, cleaner air, larger living quarters and a better overall quality of life. Happiness is 50 percent genetic, says a University of Minnesota researcher.

More here.

http://www.livescience.com/health/060227_happiness_keys.html

Monday, 4 June 2007

The ultimate "Archive of Psychology"....

Where else but at the Archives of the History of American Psychology can visitors see the uniforms and billy clubs used in the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which students ended up acting the role of guards all too realistically; watch a home movie of Freud batting fruit out of a tree with his cane; or have the bumps on their heads measured to calculate their personalities and career prospects with a 1933 psychograph?

The University of Arkon thats where !