- Freud has been debunked, yet the apparatus that defends him persists. Why do his ideas endure? Because we want to believe them
On January 24, 1895, in a letter that was kept unpublished for nearly 90 years, Sigmund Freud wrote nervously about a dangerous experiment he was planning to embark upon. “Now only one more week separates us from the operation,” he wrote to his friend Wilhelm Fliess, who would be performing the surgery. “My lack of […]
Mind
- The idea that everything is conscious
Quartz – 14h ago Consciousness permeates reality. Rather than being just a unique feature of human subjective experience, it’s the foundation of the universe, present in every particle and all physical matter. This sounds like easily-dismissible bunkum, but as traditional … The idea that everything from spoons to stones are conscious is gaining academic credibility Quartz – […]
- What Netflix’s “The Confession Tapes” Teach Us about the Psychology of Interrogations
The take-home message is that we need to change the way police do interrogations–and do it fast — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com No tags for this post.
- Learning more about yourself could help you better understand others
The intervention used in this research was based on the Internal Family Systems model that sees an individual’s personality as made up of different sub-personalities By guest blogger Marianne Cezza As social creatures, accurately recognising and understanding the mental states of others (their intentions, knowledge, beliefs, etc.) is crucial to our social bonds and interactions. In […]
- Passive Consciousness
Think your deliberate, guiding, conscious thoughts are in charge of your actions? Think again. In a provocative paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a team led by Dr. Ezequiel Morsella at San Francisco State University came to a startling conclusion: consciousness is no more than a passive machine running one simple algorithm — to serve […]
- Narrative Truth, Historical Truth
This voice of mine is crucial…. and Chris, Laura and DocDee as well. I will get actual quotes later, meanwhile here are some excerpts from the reviews of this book. …To remember, then is precisely not to recall events as isolated; it is to become capable of forming meaningful narrative sequences. In Narrative Truth and […]