The real value of college: It takes a team (in a room)?
by Chester Spell & Katerina BezrukovaCollege isn’t what is used to be. Completing a degree, traditionally seen as a sign your ticket is punched for entry into the great American middle class, is...
View ArticleThe Biology of Body Image
Have you ever felt like some part of your body was…not really yours? I’m not talking about phantom limbs or alien babies here – more about a subtle sort of discomfort with a significant body part. An...
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There Was A Great Doc From Nantucket...
From a review of Pam Belluck's "Island Practice" that was published in today's Boston Globe:"Island Practice’’ weaves together tales of Dr. Tim Lepore’s almost 30 years of residence and medical...
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Icebreakers 101: Seven Tips for Getting to Know Anyone Anywhere
There’s definitely a skill-set for meeting new folks. Here’s a quickee version of tried and true tactics for any party or social situation. Use these tips to break the ice to get to know someone...
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Can Body Clocks Make You Fat?
Body Clock FatTimes rule life. The information our bodies take in each instruct our body how to regenerate—day and night.Give the body the right information and it regenerates properly.These are simple...
View ArticleThe Myth of the "Born Worrier"
“I’m a born worrier. Fear is my best friend and worst enemy. I worry if I have nothing to worry about”. So says the Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne who claims he is constantly searching for...
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Happy Travels
"I just got back from vacation and now I really need one!" Like many parents of young children, Callie, mother of three-year-old Ethan and seven-year-old Theresa, took a summer vacation, and well, it...
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Deconstruct to Reconstruct
No single thing abides; but all things flow.Fragment to fragment clings—the things thus growUntil we know them and name them. By degreesThey melt, and are no more the things we know....
View ArticleAddiction and Magical Thinking
We’re a society of addicts. Just look around you. There are smokers, drinkers, drug abusers, degenerate gamblers. Then there are the slightly less obvious examples: compulsive shoppers, overeaters,...
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Don’t Romanticize the Canadian Healthcare System
As a Canadian, I am often bewildered by the American Left’s utopian albeit perfectly incorrect views of the Canadian healthcare system. The general notion, as exemplified in Michael Moore’s 2007 film...
View ArticleProcrastination and Dopamine Receptor Density
One remarkable difference between ADHD and non-ADHD brains appears to be lower density of dopamine receptors in the first group. And because dopamine is thought to be the brain’s chemical messenger of...
View ArticleMaintaining Wellness on Hectic Days: The "Mini-Menu" Approach
Do you ever find yourself too busy or too tired to even think about making dinner? Too exhausted to drive to the gym so you just skip exercise altogether? When dealing with the stress and the time...
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1001 Art Therapy Activities? Really?
Recently, I happened upon a review of book whose title implied it would teach the reader a number of art therapy “techniques” with a specific population. The reviewer was not an art therapist, but an...
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Young Kids Know Who to Learn From
Much of what we know is learned from other people. As young children, our parents and caregivers teach us about the world by talking with us, playing with us, and letting us watch what they do. As we...
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Do Groups Fantasize?
Psychohistory applies psychology to the experience of groups. It sheds light on the psychological motivations behind historical events.The origin of the term is often attributed to Isaac Asimov, a...
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Expect the Unexpected
Whenever we attempt to do something and fail, we end up doing something else. As simplistic as this statement may seem, it is the first principle of creative accident. We may ask ourselves why we have...
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The Power of Imagery
Imagination is a wonderful thing. I love dreaming of trips I’ll make or people I’ll meet. Most of us use imagination in one way or another every day. We imagine what our future might be. We imagine the...
View ArticleNo Size Fits All
The psychological theories that are usually used “trim a life to fit the frame,” according to J. Hillman. Here is a good story about how we perceive things through such frames, our theoretical...
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Humility
Recent studies show that humility is connected with many forms of prosocial behavior. While some misunderstand humility as low self-esteem or self-denigration, a proper conception of this virtue has...
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