How East and West think in profoundly different ways A BBC article full of cultural cliches, anecdotal evidence, and pseudoscience says so, so it must be true.
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How East and West think in profoundly different ways A BBC article full of cultural cliches, anecdotal evidence, and pseudoscience says so, so it must be true.
Why We’re Still Fighting over Freud Excellent piece
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross | American psychologist “She was especially known for having identified five stages of grief experienced by the dying: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.” Autobio: The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying (1997)
Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax Anxiety has become our everyday argot, our thrumming lifeblood: not just on Twitter (the ur-anxious medium, with its constant updates), but also in blogger diaries, celebrity confessionals (Et tu, Beyoncé?), a hit Broadway show (“Dear Evan Hansen”), a magazine start-up (Anxy, a mental-health publication based in…
The Rosenhan Study: On Being Sane in Insane Places by David L. Rosenhan: “If sanity and insanity exist, how shall we know them? The question is neither capricious nor itself insane. However much we may be personally convinced that we can tell the normal from the abnormal, the evidence is simply not compelling. It…
PDF: Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: a Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation Leary, Timothy: 1957. Unlike most other mammals, the human being continually faces and deals with conflictful situations in which anxiety threatens in at least two directions.The interpersonal world he has created pushes him toward one set (and often an imbalanced set) of…