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POPSDealing with Energy Vampires (negative people) I found 5 and 6 interesting. Think the focus should be on how to remain 'energetic' oneself while helping unhappy people, rather than shutting people out. One day, now maybe or soon, any of us could become 'negative' and need a listening ear.
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POPSEmotional Pollution and the Cult of Feelings <<<No matter how many self-help books and experts on talk shows insist that your feelings are "valid" and "appropriate," they cannot feel authentically like your own so long as they are mere reactions to someone else. If we allow the meaning of our lives to be subject to the vagaries of our reactions to the subtle emotional displays of others, we cannot help but fall into the present day quagmire of emotional pollution. To feel genuine and empowered, like a person of substance, folks need to know more than whether their emotions are "appropriate." They need to know what they mean about the self. The meaning of our emotions cannot lie in how they feel, but in what they tell us about the current fidelity to your deepest values.>>>
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POPSMyths of Mental Illness: chemicals or people? Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation by Charles Barber Excellent interview with author, difficult to do justice in clip. Part of the growing critique of the myth that mental distress is solely a matter of chemical imbalance, 'hardwiring', genetics etc. Relocates the human in culture and ideology rather than identifying a biological misfunctioning atom.
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POPSnew therapy trend: walk-in-the-park Therapy A walk in the park takes on a new meaning..esp if you see ppl talking to each other and one taking notes (HEHE) Sigmund Freud, the grandfather of the talking cure, pioneered it when he conducted a “walking analysis” of Max Eitingon, the physician, on their regular walks around the Ringstrasse Park in Vienna Mind, the mental health charity, also agrees with the health benefits of being outdoors, stressing last year the need for “ecotherapy”, or “green” exercise. Its research indicated that 71 per cent of people suffering from depression reported a lifting of their mood after a walk through a park or the countryside, while 22 per cent felt their depression worsen after a stroll through an indoor shopping centre.
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POPSToxic Psychiatry Useful website for work of psychiatrist Dr Breggin. Up to date. WARNING! When trying to withdraw from many psychiatric drugs, patients can develop serious and even life-threatening emotional and physical reactions. In short, it is dangerous not only to start taking psychiatric drugs but also can be hazardous to stop taking them. Therefore, withdrawal from psychiatric drugs should be done under clinical supervision. Principles of psychiatric medication withdrawal are discussed in Dr. Peter Breggin's book, Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock and the Psychopharaceutical Complex (Springer, NY, 2008).
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POPSComing Off Psychiatric Medication Good and growing website from a psychologist who has been through it. Useful links and discussions of major diagnostic categories, and some pointers to alternatives to medication.
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POPSThe Pressure of Time A verb is a movement that must have an object, an urge for an attaching of its desire, for what would the sea be if there were no shore to crash upon and sound its melancholy slow withdrawing ebb, and where would mari-time be if all were only sea? And where would you be if all there was is me? Verbs are the electricity of stories, being comes into being on energy's random licking of obscure and fleeting objects.
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POPSWhy do old couples look alike? The study also offered some answers on why couples may look alike. To start,consider that life experiences can end up being reflected physically. Genetic influences are also a factor. In another study, a researcher at the University of Western Ontario determined that when considering friends or romantic partners, a similar genetic profile made up about a third of the selection criteria. We may think subconsciously that people who are genetically similar work better together. In other words, many women say they want a guy like dad.
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POPSLet's be REALLY Aware of Autism This article, written in 2005, includes graphic images that speak of the roots and underlying assumptions of Applied Behavior Analysis. And yes, at one "snakepit school," autistics are still being shocked for being... autistic.
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POPSParanoid Professor Peter Kinderman, a Liverpool University psychologist and member of the British Psychological Society, said: "This is a valuable and useful tool. "It helps us to understand more about paranoia and I can see it could have a role to play in assessment and therapy."
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POPSPolitical Junkies: Why it Feels Good to Be an Extremist In The Political Brain , psychologist Drew Western summarizes fMRI experiments exploring the neuro-psychology of systematic bias and rationalization in the brains of political extremists. Finding ways to dismiss contradictory evidence triggers pleasant emotional releases in partisans' brains, eventually becoming a pleasurable, learned behavior. Once partisans had found a way to reason to false conclusions, not only did neural circuits involved in negative emotions turn off, but circuits involved in positive emotions turned on. The partisan brain didn't seem satisfied in just feeling better. It worked overtime to feel good, activating reward circuits that give partisans a jolt of positive reinforcement for their biased "reasoning." These reward circuits overlap substantially with those activated when drug addicts get their "fix," giving new meaning to the term political junkie.
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POPSConfessions of a Lonely Schizoid <<<Yes, in my burrow, in my solitary thoughts, I dream my dreams. But they are the dreams of "the undeveloped heart." I dwell in my burrow with a gallery of images, the images of a plethora of people: the monstrous and the good -- some unbelievably good. They remain phantoms, however. I lack the ability to care enough about another person; I suffer from a deficiency of the capacity for love, joy, and empathy to occupy myself with real people. The passageways of my burrow are redolent of indifference: the benign but vaguely repellent odor of emotional emptiness.>>>
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POPSComplexity Theory and Psychoanalysis The Emergent Ego: Complexity and Coevolution in the Psychoanalytic Process By Stanley R. Palombo, M.D. Madison, Conn., International Universities Press, 1999, 395 pp., $65.00. HAROLD I. EIST, M.D. Bethesda, Md.
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POPSPhotographs of a Generation "It's Complicated: The American Teenager" 
“Whatever their identity or station in life, the young people were candid and poignant in talking about themselves, often revealing estrangement from parents or ostracism by peers, discomfort with their bodies, or worry about the future.” A diverse set of teenagers, less-common subjects, such as a country preacher, a coal miner, a 19-year-old girl in prison, a Maine lobstergirl, a Georgia transvestite, and a 16-year-old female "naturist," photographed nude at a family resort in Florida. Sometimes she was not welcome and "chased out of towns," for asking questions such as "Have you been sexually active?" The New York Public Library has purchased a complete set, along with transcripts of the interviews (not all appear in the book), with the intention eventually to mount an exhibition. Please check out the photo gallery: beautiful photos and emotional quotes: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2008/mar/bowman/bowman_gallery/index.html
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POPSScale of Evil Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Michael Stone developed a hierarchy of "evil." I heard about this watching the show Most Evil on TLC.
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POPSWhen It's Bad to Talk Please read the whole article. For me, this just emphasises the need to have a trusted and skillful therapist. Talking is the best. But even the best sometimes does not work. And there some bad therapists out there too
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