Tag: psychology
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Book review: Living an Examined Life.
Rating: Im not usually a fan of the self-improvement genre of books. For a while I subscribed to a service that took bestseller non-fiction books and then distilled them down to bullet point summaries so you could get the gist of the authors content without reading the whole thing.When it came to the deconstruction of…
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This Life.
“There is truly a place in the life of the human animal for wonder, curiosity, and openness to the fathomless otherness of the universe. This spirituality is found in the artist when she suspends her ego controls and paints the images that rise from unknown zones. It is found in the scientist reflecting on the…
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Permission granted.
“Through the years I have found no matter how accomplished the life, as measured by the often superficial parameters of popular culture, most people lack elemental permission to be who they are or to give voice to the magnitude of soul that exists within them. I am not talking at all about narcissistic self-indulgence. Rather,…
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Communication rules when caring for the very sick.
The care goes in. The crap goes out. I wrote this article a while back looking at how we can behave whilst caring for someone in hospital undergoing a major healthcare episode. Sometimes they just need to vent. Susan Silk is a clinical psychologist who is also a breast cancer survivor.In a story for the…
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