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Either George W. Bush is a psychopath or he does an excellent imitation of one

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:41:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: at least three of the following criteria
• failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors
• deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, or conning others for profit or pleasure
• impulsivity or failure to plan ahead (believing that Iraqis would welcome a foreign invasion, destroying the environment for short-term gain).
• aggressiveness as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
• reckless disregard for the safety of others
• consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to honor financial obligations
• lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another (too many examples to list!).

Clip Source: powerandpowerlessness.typepad.com

The President claims that opponents of the war against Iraq, whose children are at risk, are too emotional to see things clearly. In fact, human morality is rooted in emotions or "gut feelings" that move us toward what is right and away from what is wrong. Without emotions, there would be no anger in response to injustice and no shame in behaving badly.

The American Psychiatric Association defines a psychopath as someone who meets at least three of the following criteria. The President meets all of them, as do the leaders of both political parties who push the same heartless, self-serving policies.

When authorities flaunt their disregard for human life, it seems as though humanity as a whole has no compassion. In reality, the people in power are sick freaks who do not represent the majority.

Human beings are born compassionate.

And the number one character trait that both men and women seek in a potential mate is kindness.

Tags: bush, psychology, power

The Vulnerability of Men

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:21:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...Crushing expectations combine with a lack of emotional support to create an inner despair that many men cannot communicate in words. Instead, they withdraw from intimate relationships, drink to excess, strike out in rage and kill themselves.
Huge profits flow from shaming male workers to compete to produce more, to accept oppressive conditions ("only wimps complain"), and to serve as cannon fodder for imperial wars.

Clip Source: powerandpowerlessness.typepad.com

Relationship conflicts are a universal source of pain and confusion.

The vulnerability of men is one of society’s best-kept secrets. Men are expected to provide and protect and solve all problems. They aren’t supposed to feel needy, vulnerable or inadequate like women. Yet, in some ways, men are more vulnerable than women.

As early as five years of age, males are more likely than females to kill themselves. This difference increases through life. By age 22, men are six times more likely and by age 85 fifteen times more likely to kill themselves. When a relationship breaks up, the man is 11 times more likely than the woman to commit suicide.

To "toughen" males, society directs an astonishing level of violence against them.

Laughing at someone’s pain is a sign of dissociation, and both girls and boys learn to deny male vulnerability from an early age.

Consequently, boys learn to respond with anger, even rage, when they feel vulnerable or detect vulnerability in other males.

Tags: psychology, relationships, violence

Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:14:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ... While the powers-that-be promote war as necessary for peace, prosperity and security, peace never comes, only the wealthy prosper and life becomes increasingly insecure. The ordinary American, the American soldier and the people they are supposed to hate, all are victimized by the rich and powerful who feed off their suffering.

Americans don't need to care more about the war. They need an uncompromising anti-war movement that can organize them into a force powerful enough to end it.

Clip Source: www.counterpunch.org

When Tina Turner sang, "Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken," we all knew what she meant. In a world filled with pain, nature provides a defence against suffering called dissociation.

Experiences that are too horrible to be integrated into our understanding of the world are split off from conscious awareness. Dissociation provides a mental escape when there is no physical escape.

Dissociation separates contradictory experiences to avoid internal conflict, making it possible to love our own children and support wars that kill other people's children; to want freedom and support wars that deny others their freedom. To feel outrage at being robbed and support wars that rob the people of other lands.

Severe dissociation numbs compassion and empathy, making it possible for people to do cruel and monstrous things that they would never do in a non-dissociated state.

An unthinkable war

Dissociation in the face of terrible injustice

is: a psychological defense against feeling powerless.

Tags: peace, war, psychology

Big Brother Couldn't Forsee the Big C - Consumerism

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:27:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: one of my favorite authors

Clip Source: www.empathicparenting.org

In a way, everything George Orwell predicted in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four has come true. In a way, nothing he predicted has come true

. ("Doublethink", he wrote, means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." The power to doublethink has come triumphantly true.)

Maybe. But what about Pac-Man? Orwell reckoned without capitalism's confounding capacity to avoid confrontation by merchandising it. Capitalism, like Pac-Man, can munch up anything. Control and conformism, the two Orwellian bugaboos, reckoned without behavioural psychology, which teaches that the most effective form of control is achieved by rewarding the organism, not by punishing it. Capitalism understands behavioursim as totalitarianism does not. In totalitarian countries, there are coups and revolutions and liberation movements. In capitalist countries, there are sales.

"whoever has the most things when he dies, wins."

Tags: consumerism, lifestyle

Sage psychology journals free 'till September

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:10:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.mindhacks.com

The BPS Research Digest has discovered that all 36 psychology journals by academic publisher Sage have been made freely available until the September.

Some require a free registration to view, but some key journals are available right off the bat, including Personality and Social Psychology Review (the May edition is particularly good).

The BPSRD has a list of direct links to the other freely available journals.

Tags: psychology

To Be a Mental Patient

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:17:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: sad but true

Clip Source: www.antipsychiatry.org

To Be a Mental Patient

by Rae Unzicker (1948-2001)

To be a mental patient is to be stigmatized, ostracized, socialized, patronized, psychiatrized.

To be a mental patient is to have everyone controlling your life but you. You're watched by your shrink, your social worker, your friends, your family. And then you're diagnosed as paranoid.

To be a mental patient is to live with the constant threat and possibility of being locked up at any time, for almost any reason.

To be a mental patient is to take drugs that dull your mind, deaden your senses, make you jitter and drool and then you take more drugs to lessen the "side effects."

To be a mental patient is to watch TV and see how violent and dangerous and dumb and incompetent and crazy you are.

To be a mental patient is to be a statistic.

To be a mental patient is to wear a label, and that label never goes away, a label that says little about what you are and even less about who you are.

And so you become a no-thing, in a no-world, and you are not.

Tags: psychology, human rights

Bystander's Dilemma

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:51:00 GMT

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Clip Source: greatergood.berkeley.edu

We Are All Bystanders
by Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. and Jason Marsh

But we don’t have to be. Dacher Keltner and Jason Marsh explain why we sometimes shackle our moral instincts, and how we can set them free.

“The bystander is a modern archetype, from the Holocaust to the genocide in Rwanda to the current environmental crisis,” says Charles Garfield, a clinical professor of psychology at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine who is writing a book about the psychological differences between bystanders and people who display “moral courage.”

“Why,” asked Garfield, “do some people respond to these crises while others don’t?”

Altruistic Inertia

Why people help

Anti-bystander education

More people need to learn about the subtle pressures that can cause bystander behavior, such as diffusion of responsibility and pluralistic ignorance. That way they’ll be better prepared next time they encounter a crisis situation.

Research suggests that this kind of education is possible.

Tags: morality, psychology, society

Role of antidepressants in killings needs review

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:23:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.modbee.com

Role of antidepressants in killings needs review

The murderous rampage that left 33 people dead at Virginia Tech has stirred countless emotions: sadness and anger, fear and hatred, grief and disgust.

"I'm just so tired of seeing people die, I could scream," Tracy said during a phone interview. "It's happening daily in this country. It's so massive, it's just unreal. We've got so many school shootings now, I can't even begin to keep up with them all. And the reason is so incredibly obvious. You don't have to look at much to figure it out."

2006, Bailey, Colo. — Duane Morrison shot and killed a girl and sexually assaulted six others. Antidepressants were found in his vehicle.

2005, Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minn. — Jeff Weise shot and killed nine people and wounded five before committing suicide. Prozac.

1998, Springfield, Ore. — Kip Kinkel killed his parents, then went to school and opened fire in the cafeteria, killing two and wounding 22. Prozac.

Tags: health, psychology, society

Commonsense Rebellion: Debunking Psychiatry, Confronting Society

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:29:14 GMT

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Clip Source: www.lipmagazine.org

for all of our phenomenal accomplishments, a nation in psychic pain.

Mental illness looms everywhere, forming a debilitating and destructive backdrop to our fast-paced, materialistic American lives.

Indeed, he describes the normalcy to which we are all are expected to acclimate as a dulling void of disconnectedness and dehumanization: a place of alienation from work, of mass living, of suburban detachment and urban anonymity, of false and misleading "democracy" and of creativity-sapping commercialism.

People need to understand that, yes, we're in the wealthiest society by far in the history of the world, but in order to achieve that wealth, efficiency, productivity and consumerism, we become one-dimensional. And we have sacrificed virtually all of the things that human beings need to stay alive.

The problem in our society is that nobody gives a damn about anybody until they have an illness. Then they have to care about them.

Tags: psychology

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Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:49:23 GMT

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personality tests

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:22:12 GMT

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Clip Source: similarminds.com

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Tags: personality, psychology

THE RAPE OF THE MIND

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:54:43 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ninehundred.net

THE RAPE OF THE MIND

The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

Joost A. M. Meerloo, M.D

PART ONE -- THE TECHNIQUES OF INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSION

CHAPTER ONE -- YOU TOO WOULD CONFESS

CHAPTER TWO -- PAVLOV'S STUDENTS AS CIRCUS TAMERS

CHAPTER THREE -- MEDICATION INTO SUBMISSION

CHAPTER FOUR -- WHY DO THEY YIELD? -- THE PSYCHODYNAMICS OF FALSE CONFESSION

PART TWO -- THE TECHNIQUES OF MASS SUBMISSION

CHAPTER FIVE -- THE COLD WAR AGAINST THE MIND

CHAPTER SIX -- TOTALITARIA AND ITS DICTATORSHIP

CHAPTER SEVEN -- THE INTRUSION BY TOTALITARIAN THINKING

CHAPTER EIGHT -- TRIAL BY TRIAL

Tags: psychology

Implicit Association Test,

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:44:17 GMT

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Clip Source: implicit.harvard.edu

It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds', and it is suspected that people don't always 'know their minds'. Understanding such divergences is important to scientific psychology.

This web site presents a method that demonstrates the conscious-unconscious divergences much more convincingly than has been possible with previous methods. This new method is called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT for short.

In addition, this site contains various related information. The value of this information may be greatest if you try at least one test first...

Go to the Demonstration Tests

Tags: tests, psychology, society

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Wed, 30 May 2007 17:52:39 GMT

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FOR YOUR OWN GOOD - Alice Miller (book online)

Sun, 27 May 2007 11:42:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nospank.net

On the other hand, some people try so hard to eradicate all memories, to avoid any confrontation with the tortured, humiliated child they were that they die psychically long before their physical deaths, sometimes at the expense of their children and other people. This avoidance, this denial -- often accomplished with the help of drugs -- is comprehensible, of course, as long as the pain seems unbearable to us. But it is not. It was unbearable only for the infant who needed to deny in order to survive. Adults can live with the truth. The price they pay for their denial can be very high.

Tags: child abuse, psychology, book online

Clipmarks | liotropi's 'psychology' clips

Either George W. Bush is a psychopath or he does an excellent imitation of one

The Vulnerability of Men

Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?

Big Brother Couldn't Forsee the Big C - Consumerism

Sage psychology journals free 'till September

To Be a Mental Patient

To Be a Mental Patient

Bystander's Dilemma

Role of antidepressants in killings needs review

Commonsense Rebellion: Debunking Psychiatry, Confronting Society

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personality tests

THE RAPE OF THE MIND

Implicit Association Test,

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FOR YOUR OWN GOOD - Alice Miller (book online)