March 2012
disorderanddisarray asked: Still the best blog on tumblr. You make me even more excited to leave to college and major in psych :)
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February 2012
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Forget About Survival of the 'Fittest' [WSJ] →
garymarcus:
Evolution usually makes do with ‘good enough’
If humans were truly the fittest possible creatures one could imagine, the rational-man model would make sense. But the “fittest” that survived are not necessarily the fittest possible. We are flesh and blood creatures, filled with cognitive quirks that are the detritus of evolution. If we are to move past perpetual cycles of...
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Tumblr bans self-harm blogs →
Tumblr will begin banning and removing self-harm blogs. Are you in favor of the censorship? Do self-harm blogs actually increase the practice of self-harm, or are we taking away avenues for sufferers to express their disorder and see that they are not alone? I’m not arguing whether or not Tumblr has the right to censor, obviously they possess that right. I’m thinking more about the...
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I know it’s ridiculous, but I was a little excited when this post was reblogged by inothernews, npr, discoverynews, and theatlantic.
I know, but still.
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jujubaelino asked: Behaviourism or psychoanalysis?
scipsy:
Psychoanalysis.
They both are invalid as a whole theory.
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“It’s delicious to have people adore you, but it’s exhausting, too. Particularly...”
– Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz (via psychotherapy)
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
– Rumi (via jerzee55)
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Anonymous asked: HOW IS KIM DOING
Anonymous asked: Since we've been trained from birth to think using the right side of our brains how should we be retrained to think with our Left side?
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Clinically assessing suicide risk
medicalstate:
A new mnemonic tool we learned today for assessing suicide risk is SAD PERSONS by Patterson et al.:
Social support (lack of)
Age (<19 years old and >45 years old)
Depression
Previous attempts
Ethanol abuse
Rational thinking loss
Sex (male)
Organized plan
No spouse
Sickness (chronic or debilitating)
A clinician quickly pointed out that while this is an excellent...
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What does your background look like?
vivamarisa replied to your photo: Current desktop background. What does yours look…
Clean and sharp, I like it.
Anyone else? What else are you doing if you are reading this?
What does a person’s desktop background say about them?
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Anyone else?
seafoameyes replied to your photo: Current desktop background. What does yours look…
Very nice.
wastedseductions asked: As if I didn't have enough distractions keeping me from resembling any sort of productivity, lol... Thank you so much for the work you put into this blog. It is incredible! I read while scrolling that you were interested in learning of other good blogs to follow. You may be already, but thecultofgenius is great. Anyway, enjoy the weekend... Cheers!
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Brilliant.
crum-bum:
I eat a freudian amount of bananas.
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Ahhh... I love Psychology.
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Sadly that was an incorrect quote. Check here for the source of that statement.
But srsly, who doesn’t wish he would just come out and say it?
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TED Quotes →
jtotheizzoe:
Yep.
A whole website for TED quotes.
There goes your day.
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