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Solitude, Intimacy and Mental Health

Submitted by llamprou on Mon, 12/08/2008 - 9:26am

SOLITUDE, INTIMACY AND MENTAL HEALTH

--The intrapersonal and interpersonal dialogue within and without us --

 

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Divided Minds

Submitted by llamprou on Sun, 12/07/2008 - 8:02pm

Divided Minds: Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia by Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D., St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2005

 

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GOSSIP AND MENTAL HEALTH

Submitted by llamprou on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 9:52pm


The relationship one has with oneself is not only of personal interest but an important determinant of mental health.  It is this relationship that can make or break persons, or that can render them successful, well-balanced individuals or unstable and unhappy shadows of the persons that they could have become at their full potential.  One would think that this very important, personal bond human beings share internally could only be affected by one’s own self.  But a great deal of human behavior is socially constructed and a large percentage of those social constructs are created to control and survive social situations.

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Sociopathy

Submitted by llamprou on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 8:02pm
Sociopathy
An Occidental Accident?

"When I was one-and-twenty"


When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;

Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.'
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
‘The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.'
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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Are There Two (or More) Consciousnesses?

Submitted by llamprou on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 10:04am

A February 2008 internet posting1 in the New York Times online included a brief talk by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist working in the “mind lab” at Harvard University’s Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Taylor recalls in vivid detail what she consciously experienced during a stroke brought about by a hemorrhage in her left brain hemisphere. She had, according to the Times, a “front-row seat on the deterioration of the brain”.2

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