Last month, my wife and I spent a few days in Las Vegas and made a stop to see the James Turrell art installation called Akhob. It’s an interesting concept, and kind of a strange experience. The idea is that our emotions and perceptions can be altered by being engulfed in light. As the colors…
I recently posted this photo to my photo blog, and as I looked at it, a thought occurred to me. In context with the other photos I shot that day, I know exactly where it was taken, but without that context, it could really be anywhere. Now, if you go to the blog and look…
Recently, I have seen too many studies to link here, talking about how the effects of child abuse are being confused for ADHD, or lead to a variety of mental health issues, or even physical health issues. Just today, I saw this quote in an article about a male support group in Canada: Many of…
As part of the World Mental Health Day Blog Party, I wanted to take a moment to talk about stigma, and also provide a little math lesson. I’ve said it before, but the thing that allows society to stigmatize anyone is when the people involved are simply the other. Once we identify another group of…
I was reading this article last night, and I found it to be true. There Is No Simple Solution for Depression In it, Therese talks about how she went through so many “cures” in dealing with her depression, and that none of them really cured much of anything; some even made her worse. She makes…
Apparently, yes they could. The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published a study supporting the existence of ESP that was widely criticized. The journal Science pulled a political…
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