Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life
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07/29/2010 Lessons from the Land and Sharing With Friends  There are lessons to be learned about simplicity, wholesomeness, and sharing with friends. We glimpsed a few in the Tuscan countryside.
Read more at this website... 07/27/2010 But Is It Addiction?  Is there really such a thing as "sex addiction," "food addiction," "shopping addiction," or "Internet addiction"? Addiction has less to do with what someone is addicted to and more about how their brain and behavior change over time. Recognizing the signature behaviors of addiction can save lives.
Read more at this website... 07/26/2010 Facing Life Fearlessly (Even at the Dentist)  Sometimes fear prevents us from doing what we know we need to do. But why are we willing to hand over control of our decisions to what is, after all, an emotional response?
Read more at this website... 07/26/2010 Changing Our (Relationship to Our) Past  The imperative to live in the here and now can be taken in two ways -- one, an invitation to broaden our awareness, and the other, a demand for the narrowing of awareness.
Read more at this website... 07/26/2010 ‘Ask the Psychologist’ Publishes 2000th Reply  Today our Ask the Psychologist column reaches a new milestone, and thanks are in order -- thanks to our team, thanks to those who have written in, and thanks especially to our readers.
Read more at this website... 07/21/2010 Parenting: Rules and Relationships  Behavior-based parenting techniques have enjoyed a strong following for the last several years. Less well known are the long-term disadvantages of the behavioral approaches, as well as the the relationship-based alternative that predated behavioral parenting’s popularity.
Read more at this website... 07/20/2010 The Grand Design  The giant crack in Earth that is the Grand Canyon has been here a long time -- a very long time, in fact, before we humans came along. And it's likely to go on for a long time, even if we do not.
Read more at this website... 07/20/2010 Parenting, Children and ‘Bad Seeds’  Can good parenting really yield children who are 'bad seeds'? Are parents really at fault? Or children? Or is the reality just quite a bit more complex than that?
Read more at this website... 07/15/2010 The Adventure of Response-ability  If the individual is totally responsible for their own experience, this lets other people off the hook for any consideration of the consequences of their behaviour.
Read more at this website... 07/13/2010 Four Things You Can Learn from Your Computer  You may think you have problems, but your computer has problems too: viruses, hackers, and a hard drive that's never big enough. How modern computers cope with their problems can teach us a lot about how we handle our own struggles.
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