When he looked at me, it was clear my father wasn’t sure who I was. And as I looked back at him, I wasn’t sure who he was, either.
My father had just endured two heart surgeries and 6 days in intensive care. He’d returned to the hospital where he’d worked for 40 years. It was […]
Testing and the whole notion of individual difference is something that psychology has embraced, investigated and developed throughout its history.
Broadly speaking psychological testing can be defined as the use of one or more standardized measurement instruments, devices, or procedures including the use of computerized psychological tests, to observe or record human behaviour.
This is a useful […]
Shortly after noon, I went into Arlyn’s bedroom to get a few things to take with me. I was preparing to drive about three miles out into the country, to Woodhaven Road.
I stood and gazed around her room for a few minutes; it was full of Arlyn, but it seemed so empty.
I picked up a […]
Long term care facilities and residents’ doctors should
consider combining medication treatment with psychological and
behavioral approaches, such as strength-embedded psychotherapy,
for a range of psychological disorders.
Currently, psychiatrists and primary care providers in long term care are prescribing
drugs and more drugs as the only treatment for psychological
disorders. But the addition of Strength-Embedded Psychotherapy
(SEP) is a targeted way to […]
Depression can be a matter of life and death, so help from others is of vital importance. Since depression affects millions of people each year, chances are you may know someone who suffers from this terrible illness.
Helping someone with severe depression can be frustrating at times. Many depressed people don’t want to be helped. It’s […]
Intuition can be defined as a holistic filtering of information gathered by the other senses. In previous articles I have referred to the thought mechanisms of the primordial mind as it relates to the intuitive sensing process. Intuition is directly related to survival instinct. Beyond intuition’s filtering of extraneous information there is a peculiar human […]
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Title: Resistance to Celebrating Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
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RESISTANCE […]
In the present-day world there are few people who reject the phenomenon of globalization. The world is becoming more and more global in the sense that people of various cultures start to communicate more freely. Furthermore there are means to communicate thoughts and ideas across cultures such as television, the internet and so on. Even […]
In this article, I will outline key points my fellow hospice team members and I have observed in our day to day work.. I have worked over 12 years as a Spiritual Counselor in Hospice Care. Each person teaches me something, though it is I who is supposed to minister to them in the final […]
FEAR
Fear is an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by
anticipation or awareness of danger.
Fear is evil, without evil there would be no fear. Fear is like
an icy hand. Whenever you are scared, there is something evil
involved. Fear is the opposite of life, hope, joy, peace and
love. Fear is man’s worst enemy and a terrorist’s best […]