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How things have changed!
Sometime a long time ago I happened to see the film, ˆLady in the Dark ” and just loved it. Because it is essentially about a woman in psychoanalysis — and stars Ginger Rogers! Then a few days ago, I happened across this fromFreud Quotes - There was a comic book called “Psychoanalysis” published in 1955. Just 4 issues but still - a comic book! Three issues are available to view free online at the Freud Quotes link. I cannot imagine either the film or the comics appearing today. A novel here and there, yes, but something like these from a time when popular culture embraced psychoanalysis? Not really. (Source: Jung At Heart)
Source: Jung At Heart - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs

This Picture Helps People Control Their Thoughts
Cognitive control helps people resist temptations and make decisions that benefit them in the long-term. • Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Attention Source Type: blogs

How Sleeping in the Nude Can Help Put You in a Good Mood
We all have different ways of getting ready for bed. Some may choose to slip into something comfortable like a cozy pajama, others may prefer sleeping in loose sweatpants, or underwear, and some like to sleep in the nude. While everyone has a different style, sleeping in the nude has many health benefits. The many health benefits are irrespective of being coupled up or not. If going commando isn’t your thing, see below for the hidden health benefits of how sleeping in the nude can help put you/partner in a good mood. Dr. Michael Breus, a well known sleep expert guru advises in his book, Good Night, The Sleep Doctor’s ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily Waters Tags: Habits Happiness Research Sleep Stress Body Temperature comfort Nudity Relaxation Rest Sleep Habits sleeping Source Type: blogs

Is your work ethic rooted in the quality of the relationship you had with your parents?
“The influence of the father … tended to be more important than the influence of the mother” By Christian Jarrett Some of us work to live, others live to work – these toilers see hard graft as virtuous and they’re more than happy to go the extra mile to climb the career ladder and serve their employer. Organisations, understandably, are interested in hiring people with this kind of work ethic and so psychologists are trying to find out where it comes from. It’s already known that children with harder working parents also tend to have a stronger work ethic. But a new study in the Journal of...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Gender Occupational Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: April 11, 2017
Have you ever been surprised by the level of emotion you felt from a seemingly benign situation? Maybe you caught yourself overreacting to someone cutting you off in traffic or you bit your partner’s head off for forgetting to take out the trash. When things simmer, you’re embarrassed, surprised and apologetic for your reaction. We’re usually triggered because something deeper is bothering us. That’s why we’re shocked by the outcry. Maybe we’ve bottled up our own feelings for awhile now and instead of expressing or dealing with it, we’ve been stuffing it down. A wrong word or misu...
Source: World of Psychology - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Alcoholic parent Control Eating too much sweets Emotion Feeling Getting mad at your kids Growing up with an alcoholic Moving benefits Narcissism Narcissism and the law Narcissism truths Narcissistic rage Partner Source Type: blogs

“I forgot” may (sometimes) be a credible excuse for breaking the speed limit
By Alex Fradera When someone breaks the speed limit, we tend to explain it away as recklessness, machismo, or impatience. But new research led by Vanessa Bowden at the University of Western Australia, suggests that problems in memory, not temperament, may often be the culprit. According to a recent study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, traffic stops and other interruptions can disrupt our ability to keep track of recent changes to the speed limit. But the research doesn’t entirely let us off the hook: when waiting at a stop, we can reduce these interfering effects by making sure we keep our atten...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 11, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Forensic Memory Source Type: blogs

Peeling Off the Pericardium
On June 12, 2014, my life changed immeasurably with an unexpected cardiac event. It had been brewing for a while and reached a boiling point with a fully occluded artery sending me careening into a new way of living and loving. A few hours after the initial symptoms, I had a new body part (a stent) keeping it open and the blood flowing. How many beats per minute? How much love can the heart hold? How do we keep the blood pumping that sustains our lives? How do we become works of he(art)? Each of these is a practical and philosophical question I ponder. According to Go Red For Women: Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW Tags: Aging Grief and Loss Health-related Inspiration & Hope Personal Cardiac Arrest cardiac event Coping Fitness Heart Attack Heart Disease Source Type: blogs

The Yeasty Spread That May Be A Brain Food
Neurotransmitter levels are boosted by consuming a spread popular in the UK and Australia. • Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Boost Brain Power Source Type: blogs

8 Psych Studies On How Women Can Get Hit On More …Which is Most Obvious?
Could these be 8 of the most obvious findings about attraction ever? • Click here for your free sample of Dr Jeremy Dean's latest ebook The Anxiety Plan: 42 Strategies For Worry, Phobias, OCD and Panic • Dr Dean is also the author of Spark: 17 Steps That Will Boost Your Motivation For Anything. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Attractiveness Source Type: blogs

World Of Statistics
The World of Statistics—the successor to the highly successful International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013) campaign celebrated in 2013—is a global network of nearly 2,360 organizations worldwide committed to: increasing public awareness of the power and impact of statistics on all aspects of society, nurturing statistics as a profession, especially among young people and promoting creativity and development in the sciences of probability and statistics. Why is statistics important? The short answer is that the science of statistics has powerful and far-reaching effects on everyone, yet most people are unaware of ...
Source: PsychSplash - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Clyde Tags: Academia Anyone Assessment Instruments Clinicians Commentary and Blogs Features For Information Newsletter Psychometrics Researchers Resources Statistics Students Teachers Topics Videos Source Type: blogs

Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, & the Microbiome
You’ve probably heard about the rising importance of the microbiome — otherwise known as your gut bacteria. Researchers have started to find interesting links between the naturally occurring bacteria that live in our guts, and things we’ve traditionally attributed to the brain. Things like our mood, feelings, and even thoughts. We now know, for instance, that gut bacteria can influence brain function. What has the research found linking the microbiome to serious mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder? Both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are serious forms of mental illness that sign...
Source: World of Psychology - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Bipolar Brain and Behavior Disorders General Health-related Research Schizophrenia Bipolar Disorder gut bacteria Immune System microbiome microbiota Source Type: blogs

Procrustes
Crossposted fromTheFatLadySingsThis morning I read Ragen Chastain ’s latest post, They Want Fat People to Swallow Balloons Now about yet another invasive, potentially lethal weight loss device called Obera. As Ragen explains, Obera is a silicon balloon inserted into the stomach and left in place for 6 months and is promoted as non-surgical, non-invasive (though how having to be sedated in order to have the balloon inserted qualifies as non-invasive beats me), non-permanent, and no incisions. The “non-permanent” part is c orrect because as with any such effort the weight loss is not permanent. If you go to their...
Source: Jung At Heart - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs

The 8 Voices of Laziness and How to Overcome Them
According to a study from Deloitte, 70 percent of respondents binge watch streaming content. This means watching an average of five television shows (50-minutes long) in one sitting. Do we have a laziness epidemic on our hands? It’s possible. Laziness is something everyone struggles with to varying degrees. There are many different sources of our laziness. Most of the time, we aren’t aware of these causes. Instead, we just feel lazy. As with procrastination, laziness is a symptom, not a cause. Laziness is pervasive because it has many voices and expressions that influence our behavior. Here are the eight voices ...
Source: World of Psychology - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Scott Jeffrey Tags: General Habits Happiness Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Personality Self-Help anxiety binge-watching Entertainment Fatigue Laziness Netflix Perfectionism Procrastination Psychology Shame Worry Source Type: blogs

Personality differences uncovered between students at different US universities
Students at more expensive institutions tended to score higher in trait Neuroticism By Christian Jarrett Psychology is overly dependent on student samples, but on the plus side, you might assume that one advantage of comparing across student samples is that you can rule out the influence of complicating background factors, such as differences in average personality profile. In fact, writing in the Journal of Personality, a team of US researchers led by Katherine Corker at Kenyon College has challenged this assumption: their findings suggest that if you test a group of students at one university, it’s not safe to...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - April 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Methods Personality Replications Source Type: blogs

How to Do Well in College, From a Professor ’ s Perspective
I’ve taught at colleges and universities in the United States since 1985. I teach writing. And over the years, I’ve amassed a great deal of information on how to teach. In short, each semester I practice educating others, I become a better instructor. But I’ve also collected some good info on how to get the most out of the college experience from the other side of the “fence” — how to be a good student and how to enjoy, not just suffer through, college. Below are some of my tips for doing well in college. Show Up This is a no brainer, but go to class. We’ve all heard the sentiment that “half the battl...
Source: World of Psychology - April 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: College Personal Self-Help Students Success & Achievement Academic Achievement Education studies teacher university Source Type: blogs