i have recently heard from a number of people who have difficulties with what could be called “hoarding” – ammassing and keeping more possessions or even animals than one can house in a living space. this oversupply then becomes a problem, either for the person who accumulates these items, and/or for those sharing and/or visiting.… Continue reading a house full of stuff
Month: April 2006
headache, families and guilt
from WebMD: When one person gets a headache, the family may feel the pain, a new survey shows. The results show that headaches often run in families, with effects rippling through the family like waves on a stone-struck pond. The survey included the statement, “I am unable to tend to
a narrow discipline
i have in my bathroom a hidden place where i scatter words. it’s true! behind my old pink mary kay bag, between it and
anorexia and the naked body
yesterday, at a lovely meeting of the vancouver chapter of valley women’s network, i met laara atley, originally from finland, the land of saunas. we were talking about body image, plastic surgery and the like when laara made the very valid comment that people who were brought up in a culture where nakedness is normal… Continue reading anorexia and the naked body
psychiatric medication and diagnoses, working hand in hand
Many Authors Of Mental Health Diagnosis Guidelines Have Financial Ties To Drug Makers, Study Says The majority of psychiatrists who worked on the most recent edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s widely influential diagnostic manual had financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry before, during or after the manual was published. more … are we surprised?… Continue reading psychiatric medication and diagnoses, working hand in hand
the psychology of cyberspace
john suler of rider university on the psychology of cyberspace, with titallating topics like cyberspace as psychological space cyberspace as dream world bringing online and offline living together and of course it includes a (large!) section on online therapy. in the myths of online therapy, there are two interesting comments: Many sexual abuse survivors report
mood tracking software
medicalnews tells us today Dutch researcher Maarten de Rijke and his co-workers Gilad Mishne and Krisztian Balog have developed a new programme that can trace and explain significant changes in mood patterns on the Internet. MoodViews is a collection of instruments that maps the mood of bloggers as they write their message. this is the… Continue reading mood tracking software
weird psychology
and for today: some weeeeiiiiird ideas about the human psyche: here we have a list of self defeating behaviours, which, nancy spoolman says, require ‘negative techniques‘. okay, that makes sense so far, although there is something a little strange about these long lists of negativities found on this web site. but how is this for… Continue reading weird psychology
transformations
inspired by my last blog entry, the following is a slightly altered excerpt from the satir model, giving a model of how to help people deal with feelings. anger transformed behaviour: what action did you take when you were angry? coping: how were you using anger to cope better? feelings: were there other feelings associated… Continue reading transformations
therapy, goal setting, yearnings and expectations
last week i had the great pleasure of taking a goal planning workshop with mary-lou hill. this workshop was originally designed for women who are part of mary kay cosmetics. however, since mary-lou is the mother of my friend ronnie (of part-ninja), a few of ronnie’s friends got to have a workshop designed just for… Continue reading therapy, goal setting, yearnings and expectations