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Coming of Age study

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:23:49 GMT

clipped by: tidbit2
clipper's remarks: the basis of this book caught my atttention on a clippers blog
there also is controversey about the material
I still think the basic message makes sense
maybe if the focus was on a wider scale it could be better

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Coming of Age in Samoa is a book by Margaret Mead based upon youth in Samoa and lightly relating to youth in America, first published in 1928. Mead's findings seemed to show that youth in Samoa are taught to grow together and strengthen the confidence of each other. As a result, their community is much more tightly knit than that of other cultures, and the individuals themselves are more emotionally secure. In contrast, American youth are taught to compete against each other, leaving them isolated within their own cliques. The book also put forward the thesis that Samoan teenagers (with greater sexual permissiveness) suffered less psychological stress than American teenagers (with stricter sexual morals). In it:

"[s]he emphatically criticized the neurosis-inducing nuclear family, including the stress of Christian monogamy, and used her Samoan material to demonstrate an alternative to premarital chastity..."^[1]

Neurotic lock-down nanny state drives digital divide

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:11:55 GMT

clipped by: montypaul
clipper's remarks: A culture of uncritical thinking resulting in major censorship of the web is leading to a new digital divide in some schools

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

But a new digital divide has opened up that is far more serious than have or have-not computer ownership. It's between those children for whom the whole power of new technology is locked down (ie offer limited access to web content and functions) so utterly, that they are left helplessly watching their computer screens, while others are forging ahead unfettered and unrestricted. It's a crisis.

I was working with a group of headteachers recently - full of excitement about where ICT might take their children. In a workshop exercise they took pictures with a digital camera and tried to load them onto the laptops provided. But the laptops were locked down so firmly that they couldn't even transfer their pictures onto their hard discs. "This is how all our computers are now," said one. We were all depressed.

Perhaps this is frightening enough for common sense to prevail. A digital divide is damaging. An avoidable one is unforgivable.

Tags: uk education, web safety, neurosis, uncritical, lock down society, ict, computers, uninformed censorship, schools

I am Neurotic

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:25:26 GMT

clipped by: Kelika
clipper's remarks: A site to post your neurosis

Clip Source: iamneurotic.com

remote control

I am strangely attached to my TV Remote. If it gets misplaced, i get angry and frustrated. I can’t sleep unless i know right where it is. Once, i even stayed up until one in the morning trying to find it!

Clip Source: iamneurotic.com

social constructs

I categorize colors, numbers, and letters into genders.

Clip Source: iamneurotic.com

live every week like it's shark week

Everytime I get in the water whether it’s an ocean or a pool I panic that there are sharks. Sometimes I panic in my shower.

Clip Source: iamneurotic.com

bed wetting

every time i pee, i have to pinch myself to make sure i’m not dreaming, as i’m afraid i’m actually about to wet the bed.

Clip Source: iamneurotic.com

1 truth and 10 lies

I believe that everybody lies to me. Everyone. Every person I know that tells me anything, I think about it and try to find holes in their story or things that don’t match up. I feel like they all have some hidden agenda and some crazy reason to hide things from me.

Health Fetishism Bad for Health

Fri, 02 May 2008 14:19:44 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Health means wholeness.

Clip Source: www.spiked-online.com

In a society of lowered horizons and diminished expectations, security and safety have become the highest values and the goal of preserving health has become the zenith of human aspirations.

Postponing death, through austere regimes of diet and exercise, moderation and restraint, and through regular submission to the medical surveillance of check-ups and screening tests, now takes precedence over enjoying life

fetishism of the body in contemporary culture, expressed in cults of body enhancement as well as the narcissism of the complete check-up, is linked to a pervasive fear of disease and an ultimate terror of death. These preoccupations reflect a fantasy of mastering the unmasterable, and a disavowal of death.

Though subjecting the body to a relentless regime of prevention and surveillance is unlikely to make much difference to the duration of our animal existence, it is certain to reduce the scope of our humanity – as well as imposing an unsustainable burden on our health services.

Tags: neurosis, narcissism, existential dread

Emotional Pollution and the Cult of Feelings

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:47:51 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: <<<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.>>>

Clip Source: blogs.psychologytoday.com

The popular psychology movement in the United States consists of hundreds of self-help books, magazines, Internet blogs, TV talk shows, and radio advice/call-in programs. The movement derives from an outdated form of psychotherapy based on the superficial doctrine that how you feel is who you are. Thus we live in a "cult of feelings," where what you feel has become at least as important as what you do.

Self-help books claim that to be "real" you have to explore all your feelings, without regard to the fact that "exploring" feelings amplifies and magnifies, i.e., distorts them, not to mention the fact that "exploring" your own feelings makes it difficult to see anyone else apart from your reaction to them.

People are now entitled to express every negative feeling they have, without regard to the effects on others,

result is a world rife with emotional pollution that divorces the superficial experience of emotions from their deeper meaning.

Tags: feelings, neurosis

Can Chronic Insomnia Kill?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:59:01 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.edstrong.blog-city.com

The celebrated Swedish physician Axel Munthe, who had more success treating the insomnia of his patients than he did his own, wrote in his 1929 bestseller, "The Story of San Michele":

"Insomnia does not kill its man unless he kills himself -- sleeplessness is the most common cause of suicide. But it kills his joie de vivre, it saps his strength, it sucks the blood from his brain and from his heart like a vampire."

"At least if I died, I'd get some rest," one insomniac said.

We've been taught to see insomnia as secondary to, as resulting from, depression, neurosis or other sorts of psychopathology. But there is increasing evidence that it may work the other way around:

Insomnia may be the cause and not the consequence of a person's emotional instability. Insomnia is now known to be a risk factor for depression, alcoholism and suicide.

on a growing list of conditions, including ulcers and migraines, that were once attributed to neurosis but are now known to have neurobiological bases.

Tags: insomnia, neurobiolgy, mental health

Freud's Theory of Art and Creativity

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:08:39 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.human-nature.com

This chapter will look at the general direction of Freud's writings on art, and its relationship to his metapsychology. My intention is to show that Freud's contribution to aesthetics, although criticised for being ambivalent and incomplete, is significant largely because it has made subsequent developments possible within the British School of Psychoanalysis.

Firstly, I shall look at Freud and 'pathography' - the viewing of art as a privileged form of neurosis where the analyst-critic explores the artwork in order to understand and unearth the vicissitudes of the creator's psychological motivations. However, I shall argue that this is a rather limited model, paying as it does, overwhelming attention to the content of the artwork and the inner world of the artist. This view is supplemented, however, by Freud's (1905) theory of the joke-mechanism and its relationship to his account of the primary and secondary processes.

relationship between the joke-mechanism and aesthetic experience,

Tags: freud on art, primary and secondary sublimation, psychoanlysis of aesthetics

Distorted development produces irrational beliefs

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:24:28 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: "The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."

Clip Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

A TOUCH OF CLASS

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:32:56 GMT

clipped by: shobha
clipper's remarks: Some remarkable works ....

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Vasari and Their Contemporaries

Rosso Fiorentino's depiction of the Virgin and Child.

Pontormo was a difficult character who ended up living in paranoid isolation. But for art as a record of neurosis, nothing quite compares

10 Groundbreaking Jewish Comedians

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:50:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Handed down since Moses was kvetching about having to cross the desert in his bare feet, Jewish humor emanated from Eastern Europe where the Hebrews overcame some seriously hellacious circumstances on the way to the Promised Land. "Laughter through tears," they called it.

Over the years it came in the form of slapstick (The Three Stooges), physical comedy (Jerry Lewis), smart-aleck observation (Norman Lear), occasional cruelty (Rodney Dangerfield), uncontrolled neurosis (Shelley Berman) and bemused irreverence (Jerry Seinfeld).

The religious theology itself also contributed to the craft, encouraging believers to question authority -- even God (Lenny Bruce) --and test audiences to the max (Don Rickles).

Sid Caesar (born 1922)

Milton Berle (1908 -- 2002)

Henny Youngman (1906 -- 1998)

Groucho Marx (1890 -- 1977) and the Marx Brothers

Andy Kaufman (1949 -- 1984)

Mort Sahl (born 1927)

Woody Allen (born 1935)

Fanny Brice (1891 -- 1951)

Gilda Radner (1946 -- 1989)

Lenny Bruce (1925 -- 1966)

Tags: comedy, comedians, jewish, religion

HEADACHES--TRACKING THE SOURCE

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:41:25 GMT

clipped by: freedomschild
clipper's remarks: Simply DO NOT GIVE UP! No matter how "great" the doctor's reputation, credentails or his seeming sympathy for your pain, IF you do not get reasonable, relatively appropriate and expeditious answers resulting in treatment that is effective for your pain, GO ELSEWHERE. Do not let yourself be intimidated by a doctor's assertions (on his failure to diagnose or successfully treat your pain) that the PAIN is somehow your fault, all in your mind, or some manifestation of a neurosis, or some personality disorder, again all of your conscious or unconscious control. LIFE is short, every moment filled with promise and happiness -- let nothing stand in your way to participate in the joy and realization of this fleeting blessing.

Clip Source: www.dailyherald.com

How you treat your headache depends on where the pain is coming from.

How it feels: A steady ache, pressure or tightness in a band around the head or neck. Pain on both sides

Who gets it: Roughly 78 percent of adults have a tension-type headache at some point. Most headaches are tension-type.

Causes: Tense muscles in the shoulders, neck, scalp and jaw; anxiety or depression; biochemical fluctuations in the brain; overuse of pain medications.

"You have to listen to your body and not ignore the signals, what is setting off this headache," said Dr. Daniel Hurley, a physiatrist.

Tags: headaches, pain, causes, differences

lucifer

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:35:43 GMT

clipped by: falconspirit

Clip Source: www.clairvision.org

Luciferic infestation

The phase when luciferic beings started projecting their astrality into human beings.

Main points and mechanisms

The theory is that luciferic beings were far too advanced to incarnate as human beings in the blobs' bodies. But due to insufficient development they couldn't take part in the life of angelic realms either. So they decided to project their consciousness into human beings, living their emotions and desires by proxy, playing with human beings as if with puppets.
According to Steiner's model, the luciferic infestation happened around the middle of Lemuria (Knowledge Track The Fourfold Model 3.22.12).
The luciferic infestation was responsible for a dramatic increase of astral activity in human beings, with much more elaborate mental processes, but also much more intense emotions. It was the seed impulse that would gradually lead to neurosis of our present world.

Origin of the term

Rudolf Steiner's model.

Tags: christianity, bible, lucifer

Pussy Women

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:01:01 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: women.timesonline.co.uk

Cats have mastered that basic human dream: everyone wants to touch you, but you allow it only when you feel like being touched. Therefore, you are irresistible. No one wants to be an emotional labrador, constantly hungry for love, never sated.

Cats look sensuous and are obsessive self-groomers, so, from cat’s eye to catsuit to kitten heel, cats and fashion have long been intertwined. And, thanks to Irina K, feline fever is in full flow. Tired of mannequins who look like aliens, agencies are being told: “Find us cats!”

Now, even if you say Liv looks like a very beautiful horse, it doesn’t sound good. Nor if you say that Claudia Schiffer is an achingly lovely rabbit. Only “catlike” comes off as a compliment. In the history of screen goddesses, the majority are cats: Halle Berry, Michelle Pfeiffer, Audrey Hepburn, Vivien Leigh

one can never vouch for the fragile mental health of cats. They are a convenient symbol of dark secrets and neurosis. Which is why they are well suited to fashion.

Tags: cats, fashion

Interesting Conclusions

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:28:54 GMT

clipped by: grammydjb1

Clip Source: www.quotationspage.com

Quotes of the Day

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- More quotations on: [Opinions]
No human thing is of serious importance.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.: Kenneth Tynan
- More quotations on: [Sanity] [Secrets]
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.: Willis Player
- More quotations on: [Liberals]

Tags: quotes

What - Me Worry?

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:58:35 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Are you a worry-wart. Take a look at the site for more info. It's like chicken soup - it can't hurt.

Clip Source: www.anxietyculture.com

Undoing the Worrying Habit

Once acquired, the habit of worrying seems hard to stop. We're raised to worry and aren't considered "grown up" until we perfect the art. Teenagers are told: "you'd better start worrying about your future". If your worries aren't at least as frequent as your bowel movements, you're seen as irresponsible, childish, aimless. That's a "responsible adult" game rule.

To the extent that worrying is learned/conditioned behaviour, it can be undone. There are psychological gimmicks for undoing the worry habit. There are also obstacles.

Centuries-old cultural conditioning has given us a nasty neurosis: the belief that happiness must be "earned".

You won't stop worrying if you think it serves you. So it's a good idea to distinguish the fight-or-flight response

Rearranging the mental furniture

You simply cultivate the habit of postponing worrying.

Tags: psychology, anxiety, worry