The Psychopath: The Mask of Sanity THE PSYCHOPATH - The Mask of Sanity Special Research Project of the Quantum Future School Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken. And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools. Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs. You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. How will you live your life? Provided you are not forcibly stopped, you can do anything at all. Psychopaths In the New Age I kid you not!
The State of Mental Health Needs a Coup d'Etat It has been said about our understanding of the brain generally and emotional disorders specifically that we in are in the dark; fumbling around as blindly as the geneticists were before the discovery of the structure of DNA. Until the introduction of Prozac in 1988 psychiatric drugs were a cottage industry worth about $800 million. By 2010, the psych-meds business had ballooned to $70 billion and the once admired profession of Freud and Jung had been reduced to a drug delivery method. There’s some evidence as well that people who suffer mental illness and don’t receive medication do far better in the long run. Psychiatry has been predicated on a simple binary oppositional manifold of theories. In the modern conceptualization the lack of energy in depression is a deficit in noradrenaline (norepinephrine), the lack of motivation and pleasure blamed on dopamine and the presence of anxiety is supposedly due to insufficient serotonin. Maryland Psychiatric Research Center What are we really?
BrainMind.net When hallucinations follow depth electrode or cortical stimulation, much of the material experienced is very dream-like (Gloor 1990, 1992; Halgren et al., 1978; Malh et al., 1964; Penfield & Perot 1963) and consists of recent perceptions, ideas, feelings, and other emotions which are similarly illusionary and dream-like. Indeed, the right amygdala, hippocampus, and the right hemisphere in general (Broughton, 1982; Goldstein et al., 1972; Hodoba, 1986; Humphrey & Zangwill, 1961; Kerr & Foulkes, 1978; Meyer et al. 1987) also appear to be involved in the production of deam imagery as well as REM sleep (chapter 10). For example stimulation of the amygdala triggers and increases ponto-geniculo-occipital paradoxical activity during sleep (Calvo, et al. 1987), which in turn is associated with REM and dreaming. The Right Hemisphere & Dreams. Forgotten Dreams. Most individuals, however, have difficulty recalling their dreams.
How narcissism got to be a thing. | Lucky Otters Haven This article was originally posted on October 7 and 11, 2015 in two parts. It has been updated and merged. Disclaimer: It was pointed out to me that this post may seem overly critical or stereotyping of Baby Boomers. I’m aware that the selfishness and lack of empathy we see today extends across ALL generations. When I was compiling my lists of songs about narcissism, it didn’t pass my notice how few songs there were prior to the 1980s that focused on it. I think the reason for this is because it wasn’t until the 1980s that narcissism became so dominant in western (especially American) culture that it became a new virtue–something to aspire to if you wanted to be financially and professionally successful. But I think the problem really started long before that, back in the post-WWII days when the Baby Boomers started being born. Ripeness for the rise of a culture of narcissism. As a nation, we have always adhered to principles of “rugged individualism” and the “Protestant work ethic.”
Turn on, tune in, drop by the office | 1843 Every three days Nathan (not his real name), a 27-year-old venture capitalist in San Francisco, ingests 15 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide (commonly known as LSD or acid). The microdose of the psychedelic drug – which generally requires at least 100 micrograms to cause a high – gives him the gentlest of buzzes. It makes him feel far more productive, he says, but nobody else in the office knows that he is doing it. “I view it as my little treat. My secret vitamin,” he says. “It’s like taking spinach and you’re Popeye.” Nathan first started microdosing in 2014, when he was working for a startup in Silicon Valley. Of all the drugs available, psychedelics have long been considered among the most powerful and dangerous. Yet attitudes towards psychedelics appear to be changing. As with many social changes, from transportation to food delivery to dating, Silicon Valley has blazed a trail with microdosing. LSD’s effects were discovered by accident. LSD is not thought to be addictive.
10 Practical Uses For Psychological Research in Everyday Life | People love to give each other advice. The web is full to bursting with all types of pseudo-psychological advice about life. The problem is, how much of this is based on real scientific evidence? Well, here on PsyBlog we’ve got the scientific evidence. So here’s my top 10 list of what you can learn practically from the psychological research discussed here recently. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The Place of "Cognitive Dissonance" in Narcissistic Victim Syndrome Understanding Cognitive Dissonance in relation to narcissistic abuse: Stockholm syndrome involves the victim paradoxically forming a positive relationship with their oppressor; this is called “Trauma Bonding”. When victims of narcissistic are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, they are often seen by outsiders as somehow having participated in some bizarre way that seems to support their abuse. If therapists are to understand the behaviour of clients who have been victims of narcissistic abuse, then it is crucial for them to appreciate why the victim combines the two unhealthy conditions of Stockholm Syndrome and Cognitive Dissonance as part of their survival strategy. Get an in-depth understanding of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) What is Cognitive Dissonance? What part does Cognitive Dissonance play with victims of narcissistic abuse? Social Investment: The biggest social investment the victim makes is to the person nearest to them, their narcissistic abuser.
Mondo 2000 - 10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies | PsyBlog Ten of the most influential social psychology experiments explain why we sometimes do dumb or irrational things. “I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures.Why do good people sometimes act evil?Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?” –Philip Zimbardo Like famous social psychologist Professor Philip Zimbardo (author of The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil), I’m also obsessed with why we do dumb or irrational things. The answer quite often is because of other people — something social psychologists have comprehensively shown. Each of the 10 brilliant social psychology experiments below tells a unique, insightful story relevant to all our lives, every day. Click the link in each social psychology experiment to get the full description and explanation of each phenomenon. 1. The halo effect is a finding from a famous social psychology experiment. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Why The Nicest People Have Suffered The Most Damage In Life Life tests people every day. And for reasons we don’t know, everyone gets a different test. Some struggle with calculus; others are dealt basic math. Either way, we all have to deal with what we’ve been given. Yet whatever circumstance life throws your way, you get to decide if you’re going to be a victim or a survivor. And those who choose to be sweet – the survivors – are strongest. Swiss psychiatrist and author, Elisbeth Kübler-Ross, once eloquently stated: The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. In other words, nice people weren’t born nice — they made themselves that way. Nice people bring light into the world because they come from dark pasts. In the world of darkness into which they were born, nice people use positivity as a lantern to create more light. Nice people have often been dealt a significant amount of bad luck. And they have learned not only to succeed.
Fenomenica e psicopatologia delle condizioni estatiche FENOMENICA E PSICOPATOLOGIA DELLE CONDIZIONI ESTATICHEdi Bruno Callieri Col termine "estasi" si comprendono e si indicano tutti quei fenomeni caratterizzati dalla perdita, più o meno prolungata, delle normali funzioni della coscienza e dei sensi, da un’alterata reazione agli stimoli esterni e da una specifica forma di esperienza percettiva, esterna ed interna. Nei più svariati contesti culturali lo stato di estasi viene inteso come avente una peculiare rilevanza religiosa, come momento di contatto diretto e personale col mondo sovrasensibile e con le sue potenze spirituali, prescindendo da quella che oggi domina incontrastata la scena delle scienze e che chiamiamo la mente neuronale. In molti sistemi religiosi, l'estasi si presenta e viene considerata come una delle forme più elevate di esperienza religiosa, come momento nodale del rapporto immediato dell'uomo con il divino, come momento ineffabile della sua unione con l’assoluto (unio mystica), di pienezza spirituale, di acme del Sé.
The Ten Most Revealing Psych Experiments Psychology is the study of the human mind and mental processes in relation to human behaviors - human nature. Due to its subject matter, psychology is not considered a 'hard' science, even though psychologists do experiment and publish their findings in respected journals. Some of the experiments psychologists have conducted over the years reveal things about the way we humans think and behave that we might not want to embrace, but which can at least help keep us humble. That's something. 1. The Robbers Cave Experiment is a classic social psychology experiment conducted with two groups of 11-year old boys at a state park in Oklahoma, and demonstrates just how easily an exclusive group identity is adopted and how quickly the group can degenerate into prejudice and antagonism toward outsiders. Researcher Muzafer Sherif actually conducted a series of 3 experiments. 2. The prisoners rebelled on the second day, and the reaction of the guards was swift and brutal. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Psychopaths vs. Sadists: Brain Science, Public Fascination Psychopathic serial killers are a source of infinite public fascination. If best-selling novels, hit TV series and popular films are any indication, you’d think real-life Hannibal Lecters were constantly running amok in the U.S. Thankfully, such offenders are far less prevalent in reality than they are in entertainment — but the disproportionate damage done by violent and even nonviolent psychopaths not surprisingly attracts intense scientific interest as well. On May 11, in fact, the New York Times explored whether psychopaths can be diagnosed as young as age 9. Another way to figure out what makes the psychopath tick is to contrast him — and they are overwhelmingly male — with other abnormal personalities. (SPECIAL: Report: 1 in 5 American Adults Takes Mental Health Drugs) Decety and his colleagues recently published a brain-scan study of 15 violent sexual offenders, eight of whom were classified as sexual sadists. (MORE: 1 in 25 Business Leaders May Be a Psychopath) Psychopathy vs.