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Hello, I'm Back!
Hello folks, I lost track of time and I got involved in a lot of other projects so I did not publish a podcast in a long time. I'm coming back with more podcasts and I'm going to focus more on my new interest- Virtual Reality Therapy. (Source: The Shrink Is In)
Source: The Shrink Is In - April 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts

Practicing deliberately for excellence
Malcolm Gladwell had popularized the ‘10,000 hour’ rule to expertise in his popular book ‘Outliers’. As per his formulation, anyone who puts in 10,000 hours of effort could excel in a particular field. What one required was determination and raw effort. He had based these conclusions on the work of Anders Ericsson and colleagues and now Anders Ericsson (with Robert Pool) in his new book ‘Peak’ has tried to clear the muddied waters surrounding the 10,000 hour rule. You can read an excerpt from peak here , where Anders himself clarifies that it doesn’t necessarily take 10,000 hours t...
Source: The Mouse Trap - April 23, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: intelligence deliberate practice exprtise Source Type: podcasts

Emotions – redefined!
English: Managing emotions – Identifying feelings (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a proponent of the eight basic emotions theory of emotions where the eight basic emotions are fear, courage/interest, sadness, happiness, disgust, surprise/awe and anger and love. Its apparent that they are also paired in opposites as in fear and courage/ interest are opposite emotions in one sense of the word. Today I want to elaborate on the idea that these emotions come about in opposite pairs and differ just so slightly from each other in terms of the cognitive/motivational appraisal. C...
Source: The Mouse Trap - January 23, 2015 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: emotion Source Type: podcasts

Love and Work
#180541146 / gettyimages.com Love and work are two cornerstones of adult human life. The capacity to love and work adequately was considered by Freud as important for our well-being. Adult romantic or love relationships are grounded in childhood attachment patterns. As per the famous and well researched and validated attachment theory, childhood attachment figures and the quality of our attachment with the primary caregiver, serve as templates for future adult relationships. Attachment theory posits that there are at-least three different kinds of attachment patterns- secure attachment (when parental care-giving is consis...
Source: The Mouse Trap - October 15, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: development emotion Freud Love Parenting Sigmund Freud Source Type: podcasts

Many Paths, Many Ends
Aum symbol in red (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Human beings are driven by many different goals throughout their life and though the goals of one individual would be different from other, the major goals of life can be classified as striving towards finding happiness, success, integrity and meaning in life. I have blogged elsewhere about how the latest research in positive psychology is explicating these four different legitimate aims via which one may lead a good or flourishing life. Also, a rider is in place here- its not as if one needs to, or is indeed, driven by one major goal to the exclusion of others, but a normal huma...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 22, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Sandeep Gautam Tags: happiness Artha Bhakti Bhakti Yoga cognition Hinduism Jnana Yoga Karma Yoga Moksha Source Type: podcasts

Clowns Can Scare Children
Dr. Gurr talks about how children find clowns scary and how parents can help their children deal with the anxiety when exposed to clowns. (Source: The Shrink Is In)
Source: The Shrink Is In - July 30, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts

emotions and personality: take 6
Cover of Personality Disorders in Modern Life Today I learned that Theodore Millon died. I started reading ” personality disorders in modern life” as a tribute to him, but the monkey mind that mine is, ended up writing this post instead. To recall, Theodore Millon’s model talked about four fundamental evolutionary problems faced by all humans: 1) existence 2) adaptation 3) replication and 4) abstraction. There were also two polar ways of approaching each fundamental problem; that of pleasure-pain; activity-passivity; self-other and I added to it the fourth polarity of broad-narrow. Anyway ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 1, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Sandeep Gautam Tags: personality ABCD Daryl Bem emotions Millon Nature versus nurture passion vs prudence Theodore Millon Trait theory Source Type: podcasts

Doing more by doing less!
Hepburn (band) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) When I first heard of the book title ” Why Quitters Win: Decide to be excellent“, to say the least, I was very much intrigued. Was Nick trying to say something like stop doing something mid-way if you know that it is going to fail- and ignore the sunk costs…or was it about quitting when faced with unreasonable odds- rather than doubling your efforts and commitment. I believe in sticking with the choices you make, till you have given it your last shot, and so was slightly apprehensive. However, what Nick Tasler means, is not about starting many things sequential...
Source: The Mouse Trap - October 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: decision-making Quit Starbucks Source Type: podcasts

An infographic on schizophrenia
In continuation of the theme of May as Mental Health month, passing along an infographic received in email. Hope it helps in raising awareness. Source: BestMedicalDegrees.com Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast) (Source: The Mouse Trap)
Source: The Mouse Trap - May 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: schizophrenia Source Type: podcasts

Book review: A Lethal Inheritance
Rethink Mental Illness (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Today, i.e. 15th may 2013 is being celebrated as a mental health blog day by APA and in the spirit of the day I am posting a review of ‘A Lethal Inheritance’ by Victoria Costello. It is a book chronicling how ‘ a mother uncovers the science behind three generations of mental illness‘ and is an apt topic for the day highlighting the importance of public education and discourse about the topic of mental health. this blog pots and book review is a homage to all the people who silently suffer from mental illness, most of the time undiagnosed, o...
Source: The Mouse Trap - May 16, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review #mhblogday environment genes Health Mental disorder Mental health Suicide Source Type: podcasts

Business Sutra: the marriage of management and mythology!
Tathastu (Photo credit: .::RMT::.) Regular readers of The Mouse Trap will know that I have an abiding interest in all things mythological; also by profession I am a middle manager. Top this with the fact that I am a fan of Devdutt Patanaik and have written a couple of posts before about his work, and you will not find it strange that I could not pass a chance to review his latest book, Business Sutra, which successfully entangles mythical narratives and interpretation with sound business and management principles and practices. The book appears voluminous, with more than 400 pages, but is easy to read and l...
Source: The Mouse Trap - April 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review Culture of India Devta Hindu mythology Svaha Tathastu Source Type: podcasts

Epic Love Stories: a book review
taking oath, on abdicating his right to the throne, in order to get the fisher girl married to his father . (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Although this blog is mainly about psychology, I have interests in mythology and have earlier reviewed Devdutt Pattanaik‘s ’7 secrets of Shiva’, under the Blogadda’s book review program. So when an opportunity to review Epic Love Stories by Ashok Banker came under the same program, I could not resist myself. While Devdutt Pattanaik reinterprets myths in modern light and draws explicit analogies , Ashok Banker sticks to a retelling of the myth in its original spirit- a...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 26, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review Amba Ashok Banker Bhishma Brahmin Devdutt Pattanaik Dharma India Varna Source Type: podcasts

Clowns Can Scare Children
Dr. Gurr talks about how children find clowns scary and how parents can help their children deal with the anxiety when exposed to clowns. (Source: The Shrink Is In)
Source: The Shrink Is In - October 28, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts

Parents Need To Be Partners In Education
Dr. Gurr talks about the positive impact parents can have on their children's education. (Source: The Shrink Is In)
Source: The Shrink Is In - October 18, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrGurr Source Type: podcasts