psych

Sometimes I feel like I’ve been around forever.  I’m not really all that old but I’ve been through the electronic communication wars for what feels like forever.  I seem to know more about it than a lot of the people around me.  Yeah, ok, I’m a geek too, so I have to know.
As many who [...]

Information is good.  Part of the mission of this blog is to get information out there.  Today’s bit of information has to do with dissociative identity disorder, more commonly known as multiple personality disorder.  In short, it’s fragmentation of the personality in childhood caused by severe, repeated trauma (generally sexual).  The disorder is wildly underestimated [...]

It’s been a great day for research, or at least online links to interesting brain stories.
In our first treat for the day, doctors `confirm’ a woman’s third arm after a stroke.  The lady in question is a 64 year old Swiss woman has reported the presence of a pale, milky third arm.
Since we’re all science [...]

I have mentioned before that my wife suffers from multiple personality disorder (new name: dissociative identity disorder).  I suffer from it too but only in a secondary sense.  If you have the Showtime network or friends, you might have watched The United States of Tara, a show about a woman with multiple personalities.  Steven Spielberg [...]

BBC: Many therapists treat their gay patients in spite of there being no proof that the treatment works.
Wow.
The lead author of the study said that therapists were largely acting with the best of intentions, which takes some of the sting out of the concept, I hope.  He goes on to say, “We know now that [...]

The year was roughly 1975, the venue was Congress, the subject was the Church Committee.  This was when the CIA was called on the carpet and admitted to mind control experiments.  This is public record.
There may be prior history but let’s call it the end of World War II.  Nazi scientists were doing all sorts [...]

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post about the local tumult and a hundred square feet of bloody paw printed carpet, the cat injured himself yesterday.   When I last wrote, he was stationed on his own personal fluffy towel on the kitchen floor (blood comes off lineoleum better than carpet, I suspect).  My wife was going [...]

Ok, there are people reading this (or skipping it) who are making tin foil hat references at about this moment.  If they have skipped it, good.  If they are still reading, why bother?
I read a lot.  Information is good.  I don’t necessarily believe everything I read but it’s good to gather information.  I’ve always been [...]

Playing the popular game Tetris after a traumatic experience could significantly reduce emotional scars.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.  Or both.
When I read the headline, I thought about a technique called EMDR and noted to myself that this was so obvious there’s no way I could have made the connection.
Of course I was [...]

DEPRESSING (DEPRESSIVE?) NEWS
Nearly 5 Percent Of U.S. Population Suffers From Persistent Depression Or Anxiety
Why Are Some People More Susceptible To Depression Than Others?
Is There Really an Epidemic of Depression?

Mindreading 101? Identifying images by watching the brain
Japanese researchers create images from thoughts using thoughts about images
Amazing research.  Amazing topic.  Amazing potential for misuse.
Fears of gender-bending chemicals [...]