neuroscience - Blogs - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T10:00:12Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/neuroscienceNeuroscientists Working to Develop Drugs that Erase Painful Memories---What do You Think?https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/neuroscientists-working-to2011-03-11T21:28:12.000Z2011-03-11T21:28:12.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><div><p>I just watched a 3-minute video that made me very uncomfortable. It discusses how neuroscience doctors are working to develop drug treatments that could erase traumatic memories form people's minds. In a country where 1 in 5 veterens come home suffering PTSD or depression--or perhaps in the wake of a massive natural disaster like the Japan quake and tsunami (not to mention Chile, Haiti, Hurricane Katrina and so many others)--revolutionary drug treatment like this could ease pain and suffering on a huge scale.</p><p>Part of the problem with trauma, as Robert Stolorow suggests in <i>Trauma and Human Existence,</i> is that trauma initiates a sense of loss of security and of anxiety about the unpredictability of our world after the initial event occurs. The anxiety involves the impression of <i>uncanniness</i>, or the feeling “not-being-at-home” in the world. Everyday meaning in life collapses as the world takes on a strange and alien tone, and the one who experiences trauma feels incongruent, isolated, and bizarre because he simply cannot see how anyone else could possibly experience the rupture and ensuing chaos in the same way. And we all know the potential side effects: inability to sleep, nightmares, flashbacks, emotional numbing, hyperviligence, being easily startled, heart palpitations, panic attacks, depression, despair, thoughts of suicide...the list goes on. Trauma literally turns a person's life upside down. What would it be to simply take a pill and make it all go away a trauma victim can feel at home again?</p><p>Donald Kalsched, in <i>The Inner World of Trauma,</i> uses the word <i>trauma</i> to mean any experience that causes <em>unbearable</em> psychic pain or anxiety. For an experience to be "unbearable" means that it overwhelms the usual defensive measures which protect us from perceiving horror and pain. Perhaps, with a simple pill, we could prevent that overwhelm. But, do painful memories serve a purpose? And if we simply repress them, where do they go? If memories are completely repressed, the theory of the unconscious insists they will only pop up somewhere else with even greater force---demanding to be engaged.</p><p>Here's the link to the video (hint: click the "x" to close the other video ads running during playback). What do you think?</p></div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.cinemahaven.com/news/docs-work-to-erase-memories-in-war-veterans-video_8d6d43458.html?utm_source=www.cinemahaven.com&utm_medium=twitter">http://www.cinemahaven.com/news/docs-work-to-erase-memories-in-war-veterans-video_8d6d43458.html?utm_source=www.cinemahaven.com&utm_medium=twitter</a></div>Depth Insights™ Journal, New Issue—Claim Your Copy Todayhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/depth-insights-journal-new-issue-claim-your-copy-today2017-10-07T02:30:00.000Z2017-10-07T02:30:00.000ZDepth Alliancehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DepthAlliance<div><div><h3 class="_1mf _1mj"><span><a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine/" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2">We are pleased to announce that the new issue of Depth Insights™ Journal, the official peer-reviewed publication for Depth Psychology Alliance is out!</span></span></h3>
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</div></div>Hearing Voices: When the Unconscious Callshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/hearing-voices-when-the2011-03-28T08:22:13.000Z2011-03-28T08:22:13.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Auditory hallucination is common according to Daniel B. Smith. In “Can You Live With the Voices in Your Head?”, Peter D. Kramer’s summary of Smith’s 2007 book, Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination (Penguin Press), Kramer summarizes Smith’s data. Though many of us in the mainstream associate hearing voices with pathology, 39 percent of healthy volunteers said they had heard their own thoughts aloud. Another 13 percent of those who had lost a spouse reported hearing their dead partner’s voice, and three percent with a running history of auditory hallucinations and deemed mentally healthy didn’t feel the experience required treatment.</p><p>With the increasing technology and ease of conducting bran scanning in the field of Neuroscience, scientists have attempted to explain the phenomenon of hearing inner voices. Their take? They report that for schizophrenic individuals who experience auditory hallucinations, the language related part of their right brain lights up when they read. In those who do not experience auditory hallucinations, the left brain shows the bulk of activity. For the first group whose right brain lights up, the fact that the words appear to be processed on the “wrong” side of the brain could potentially lead an individual to believe that he “hears” a voice that he does not attribute to the self (Kramer, 2007).</p><p>Any event where language is processed involves perception, emotion, and attention, and Kramer (2007) recounts Smith’s experiences in trying to recreate and research the phenomemon himself by putting on a portable headset that simulates voices, by floating in a sensory deprivation chamber, and by meeting with a group who all claim to hear voices. In fact, Kramer relates, it appears that Smith’s own father began hearing voices when Smith was a boy of 13, voices which instructed him to move objects or take certain routes or turnstiles in the subway for example. Unfortunately, the elder Smith, perhaps fearing judgment or being labeled psychotic, wrestled with his experience for decades, always keeping the voices a deep, dark secret—a situation Daniel Smith attributes to causing his father to fall into a psychotic depression in his late thirties. More, the elder Smith responded with feelings of betrayal and anger upon discovering his father, too, had heard voices telling him (with varying results) what hand to play at cards or which horse to bet on at the track.</p><p> </p><p>What Smith—and Kramer after him—seems not to realize is that there is yet another explanation beyond neurobiology or psychopathy that may validate the presence of “inner voices.” A depth psychological take would easily attribute the would-be voices to something larger than the individual, a manifestation of the unconscious that is emerging into the individual’s consciousness for good reason, perhaps drawing his attention to something important, offering information, transformation, or healing. In fact, unconscious processes “often take the form of a patient describing a bother some condition that the patient can neither account for nor control” (in Shevrin & Dickman, 1980, p. 422).</p><p>Ancestral connections are not uncommon in manifestations of the unconscious. In fact, Robert D. Romanyshyn (2007) suggests unfinished business of the soul often emerges when there is work that needs to be to address it or complete it and, as C.G. Jung himself believed, is on behalf of the ancestors that the work is done. An individual who is privy to manifestations that burst through the unconscious into consciousness can act as a witness and a spokesperson for those who “linger with their still unanswered questions.” The voices which Daniel Smith’s father heard, and his father before him, may well have been a pressing weight of history that was being passed across generations until someone actively engaged it.</p><p>One way to engage with the unconscious is to actually dialogue with the voices, rather than ignoring, repressing, or simply acquiescing to what they say. Thomas Elsner (2009), in his astute review of The Wounded Researcher points out Romanyshyn’s assertion that there is a transferential field hosting a wealth of information that can be navigated through fantasies, reveries, and images. August Cwik (1991) reminds us that Jung regarded active fantasy, what he later termed <i>active imagination</i>, as a powerful way to create a transitional space, a safe container in which play can occur and new material emerge. By beginning from a reflective state and allowing oneself to enter into relationship with the voices, an individual may actually be able to elicit information he wouldn’t ordinarily necessarily have heard. Following the dialogue, it must be concretized in form through some kind of art or writing (Jung, in Cwik) or to ritualize the new information so it will deepen into understanding at the somatic level rather than remaining intellectual only (Johnson, in Cwik). Ritual, states Johnson, is “symbolic behavior, consciously performed” (p. 105).</p><p>In fact, in <i>Muses, Madmen, and Prophets</i>, Daniel Smith entertains the idea that auditory hallucination may be a source of inspiration, the closest he can come to assigning it to something akin to the unconscious, or the Self (Kramer, 2007). While remaining agnostic himself about whether these hallucinations actually transmit authentic wisdom, Smith recounts several stories of historical and religious figures who perceived the voices they heard to come from the Divine. The list runs from Muhammad to the Archangel Gabriel to John Bunyan, a central figure in the literary work <i>Pilgrim’s Progress</i>, who all were urged by voices to turn to Scripture. Teresa of Avila was given mandates that didn’t actually include sound (perhaps a convenient way to stymie the Inquisitors) but which initiated a new era of Divine inspiration that was hotly debated as either a Christian triumph over the pagan oracles, or as a loss of direct inspiration. Still other forms of “hallucination” have manifested in automatic writings. However, in the end, Kramer reports that Smith issues a provocative question about the source and value of this phenomenon: If antipsychotic medication had been available, Smith wonders, “Would Moses have dismissed Yahweh’s demands at the burning bush ‘as his dopamine system playing tricks on him?’” (para. 5). While not answering directly, we are ultimately left with the distinct impression that as a culture, Smith believes we are likely headed more toward a neurological manner of dealing with otherwise inexplicable voices in our head, rather than a mystical one. Those of us who believe in the power of the unconscious will have to continue to listen, and to watch.</p><p align="center">References</p><p>Cwik, A. J. (1991). Active imagination as imaginal play-space. In M. Stein & N. Schwartz-Salant (Eds.), <i>Liminality and transitional phenomena</i> (pp. 99-114). Wilmette, IL: Chiron Publications.</p><p>Elsner, T. (2009). Following the footsteps of the soul in research. <i>Psychological Perspectives, 52</i>, 24-36.</p><p>Kramer, P. D. (2007). Can You Live With the Voices in Your Head? <i>New York Times</i>. Retrieved from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/books/review/Kramer.t.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/books/review/Kramer.t.html</a></p><p>Romanyshyn, R. (2007). <i>The wounded researche</i>r<i>: Research with soul in mind</i>. New Orleans, LA: Spring Journal Books.</p><p>Shevrin, H. & Dickman, S. (1980). The psychological unconscious: A necessary assumption for all psychological theory. <i>American Psychologist</i>, 35, 421-434.</p><p> </p></div>This Week “In-Depth” - Depth Psychology-related stories for the week ending 12-26-10https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/this-week-indepth-depth2010-12-27T00:34:46.000Z2010-12-27T00:34:46.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><br /><br /><span class="font-size-3"><span style="color:#ff00ff;"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Carl Jung & Jungian Topics: Dreams,Archetypes, Symbols</span></b></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Individuation: The Process of a Lifetime: J</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">ung defined it as "the process by which a person becomes an "in-dividual…” <a href="http://www.jungiananalyticpraxis.com/individuation_lecture.htm" target="_blank">http://www.jungiananalyticpraxis.com/individuation_lecture.htm</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Book review: What Story Are You Living? By Carol Pearson and Hugh Marr> Are all stories are derived from archetypes? <a href="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2010/what-story-are-you-living-2/">http://psychcentral.com/lib/2010/what-story-are-you-living-2/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Depth Psychology and Myths Today</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">: The mystery that surrounds us feeds the myths we make… <a href="http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=5195" target="_blank">http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=5195</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">The Differences Between the Wounded Healer Archetype and the Healer Archetype: <a href="http://www.shamanswell.org/shaman/differences-between-wounded-healer-archetypes-and-healer-archetype" target="_blank">http://www.shamanswell.org/shaman/differences-between-wounded-healer-archetypes-and-healer-archetype</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Archetypes of the Feminine from Robert Johnson: Which one is at play in your life or<br />relationship?</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.jungian.info/library.cfm?idsLibrary=7" target="_blank">http://www.jungian.info/library.cfm?idsLibrary=7</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Inner Imaginal Conversations: Indigenous peoples for thousands of years have considered dreams to be guides to their lives helping them in decision-making…</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/inner-imaginal-conversations-jungian-dream-analysis/" target="_blank">http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/inner-imaginal-conversations-jungian-dream-analysis/</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">That little psychological menace called <i>projection</i>: “As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.”~Carl Jung. One response:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://bit.ly/gF16KI" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/gF16KI</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Depth Psychology and Myths Today</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">: The mystery that surrounds us feeds the myths we make… <a href="http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=5195" target="_blank">http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=5195</a><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Listen online: “In Touch with Carl Jung”> The archetype of Regret with Bradie Hansen: <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9142439064,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank">{{#staticFileLink}}9142439064,original{{/staticFileLink}} class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6pt; text-indent: 0in; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Listen online: Deena Chappell &"The Voices of Archetypes" on "InTouch with Carl Jung": </span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="color:#ff0000;"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Psychology, Therapy, Disorders, & Trauma</span></b></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Children born to mothers living within 309 meters of a freeway appeared to be twice as likely to have autism: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217091208.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101217091208.htm</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Recovering from Trauma: The enduring effect of war & terrorism in PTSD in soldiers and civilians of combat zones:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://bit.ly/i14tHw" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/i14tHw</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Writing heals: Brain research confirms relationship between words & neurological underpinnings of emotional trauma: <a href="http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/73/upside-of-writing/" target="_blank">http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/73/upside-of-writing/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Sleep plays a crucial role in the development of memories, so could</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">sleep deprivation eliminate fear & aid those suffering from PTSD?</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112446.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101207112446.htm</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff6600;"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Technology, Culture, & Entertainment</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">An astute archetypal assessment: “WikiLeaks and the Death of the Event”</span><span style="font-size:11pt;">: An<br />Essay by John David Ebert</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://cinemadiscourse.com/cultural/" target="_blank">http://cinemadiscourse.com/cultural/</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Contagious Emotion: How social media can create big change: <a href="http://bit.ly/hv08cU" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/hv08cU</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Symptoms as signals of things unlearned:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;">A depth-psychological look at</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;">8 Lessons We<br />Can Learn from the Transnationals:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.chalquist.com/transnationals.html" target="_blank">http://www.chalquist.com/transnationals.html</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Sacred Brands: Consumerism as Modern Religion</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">: As far back as 2001, ad firm Young & Rubicam declared "Brands are the new religion. People turn to them for meaning…"<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-j-rossano/sacred-brands-consumerism_b_789303.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-j-rossano/sacred-brands-consumerism_b_789303.html</a></span></span></p><h2 style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Your call, but calls for contemplation: Cultural Symptoms: Cable News and the Moment to Moment Mindset: <a href="http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=3987" target="_blank">http://www.namingandtreating.com/?p=3987</a></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">What do these contemporary films say about the mind today? <a href="http://brainworldmagazine.com/?p=699" target="_blank">http://brainworldmagazine.com/?p=699</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">The film “Inception” from the perspective of a Shaman: <a href="http://www.suite101.com/content/inception-from-the-view-of-a-shaman-a317296" target="_blank">http://www.suite101.com/content/inception-from-the-view-of-a-shaman-a317296</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">For the first time in history it is possible to bump into an electric image of oneself on a fairly regular basis… "One Thousand Malkoviches: Reflections On the Cultural Phenomenology of Celebrity, An Essay by John David Ebert" <a href="http://cinemadiscourse.com/cultural/?p=270" target="_blank">http://cinemadiscourse.com/cultural/?p=270</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Visionary movies privilege the archetypal point of view (also a great site for a multitude of reviews):</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/the-visionary-movie-a-manifesto/" target="_blank">http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/the-visionary-movie-a-manifesto</a></span><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3" style="color:#ff00ff;"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Mind, Brain, & Neuroscience</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Forget IQ: The Emerging Science of Collective Intelligence:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/29/forget-iq-the-emerging-science-of-collective-intelligence-2/" target="_blank">http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/29/forget-iq-the-emerging-science-of-collective-intelligence-2/</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">New lab study: Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/12/22/lab-study-suggests-stress-can-enhance-memories/22061.html?utm_source=PsychCentral&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">http://psychcentral.com/news/2010/12/22/lab-study-suggests-stress-can-enhance-memories/22061.html?utm_source=PsychCentral&utm_medium=twitter</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Jung’s “2000-year-old-man” still lives in our primal brain: Fear is a fundamental part of making good decisions <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-willpower/201012/why-we-need-little-fear" target="_blank">http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-willpower/201012/why-we-need-little-fear</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Neural Feedback: Brain Influences Itself with Its Own Electric Field> The brain generates an electric field that influences its own activity:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;"><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=neural-feedback" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=neural-feedback</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">The famous 'aha' effect is a peculiar phenomenal experience that people have when they solve a problem, yields pleasure:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215102440.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101215102440.htm</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Naps boost memory, but only if you dream:</span> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://nhne-pulse.org/naps-boost-memory-but-only-if-you-dream/" target="_blank">http://nhne-pulse.org/naps-boost-memory-but-only-if-you-dream/</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Wholeness Regained - Revisiting David Bohm's Dialogue: <a href="http://ow.ly/3upTc" target="_blank">http://ow.ly/3upTc</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">How does science fit in America’s growing interest in psychic and paranormal events? (Carl Jung also tried to explain it) <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199609/do-the-spirits-move-you" target="_blank">http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199609/do-the-spirits-move-you</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="color:#ff0000;" class="font-size-3"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Nature, Ecology, & Ecopsychology</span></strong></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Climate change could kill up to 5 million people in the next 10 years—and most of them<br />are <a href="http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2010/in-numbers/"><span style="color:#000000;text-decoration:none;">children under the age of 5</span></a>: <a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/12/children-hit-hard-climate-change?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2FTheBlueMarble+%28Mother+Jones+%7C+The+Blue+Marble%29&utm_content=Twitter" target="_blank">http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/12/children-hit-hard-climate-change?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2FTheBlueMarble+%28Mother+Jones+|+The+Blue+Marble%29&utm_content=Twitter</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">We need an energy sixth sense to fight global warming: ROUGHLY 30 to 40 per cent of global energy use occurs in buildings <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827915.400-we-need-an-energy-sixth-sense-to-fight-global-warming.html" target="_blank">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827915.400-we-need-an-energy-sixth-sense-to-fight-global-warming.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Earlier this year: Scientists say Dolphins Should be Treated as Non-Human Persons: Dolphins have distinct personalities and self-awareness & can think about the future <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news181981904.html" target="_blank">http://www.physorg.com/news181981904.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;"><span class="font-size-3"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Ecopsychology:</span> <u><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';">Solving Climate Change Is a Psychological Challenge -- Some Solutions -</span></u> <span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/ecopsychology" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/ecopsychology</a></span></span></p></div>“In-Depth” - This week’s Depth-Psychology-related News & Stories of Note for the week ending December 19, 2010https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/indepth-this-weeks2010-12-22T09:30:02.000Z2010-12-22T09:30:02.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p style="text-align:left;" align="center"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;color:#ff0000;"><b>Carl Jung & Jungian Topics: Dreams, Archetypes, and Symbols</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Dreamwork as a rewarding</strong> spiritual practice by Jean Raffa: <a href="http://bit.ly/gPWY9r">http://bit.ly/gPWY9r</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Before the Meyers-Brigg</strong> (MBTI) Jung developed personality typologies. What’s yours? Free online test: <a href="http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp">http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Vampires embody</strong> all aspects of the darker side of human nature. It’s what Freud called the Id and Carl Jung called the Shadow: <a href="http://www.chateaugrrr.com/featured-guests/martin-v-riccardo">http://www.chateaugrrr.com/featured-guests/martin-v-riccardo</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Carl Jung’s ideas on</strong> the form & definition of archetypes took 27 yrs to evolve. What is this powerful concept, anyway? <a href="http://bit.ly/flIgOZ">http://bit.ly/flIgOZ</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Psychological Types ></strong> Carl Jung describes 4 basic psychic functions: intuition, sensation, feeling, & thinking: <a href="http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FLM/SH/MDL/GAL/GalDisChapts/galdis.chapter1.html">http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/FLM/SH/MDL/GAL/GalDisChapts/galdis.chapter1.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>On Alchemy, C.G. Jung, and Ecological Intelligence:</strong> Alchemy describes a pattern of transformation… <a href="http://jungianwork.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/on-alchemy-c-g-jung-and-ecological-intelligence/">http://jungianwork.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/on-alchemy-c-g-jung-and-ecological-intelligence/</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;color:#ff0000;"><b>Psychology, Therapy, Disorders, & Trauma</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>Creating a Narrative for Trauma</strong> Seems to Help Victims of PTSD: How children in Haiti are creating a narrative through special workbooks…</span> <span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><a href="../../forum/topics/creating-a-narrative-for">http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/creating-a-narrative-for</a></span></span> <span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-labier/why-you-need-an-insideout_b_712108.html"></a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>How to Live an "Inside-Out Life"</strong>: Find pathways for maintaining psychological health & resilience during the rising "social psychosis" in our culture <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-labier/why-you-need-an-insideout_b_712108.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-labier/why-you-need-an-insideout_b_712108.html</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Excellent read: "Conscious Femininity"</strong> by Marion Woodman <a href="http://bit.ly/i6yWkh">http://bit.ly/i6yWkh</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;">Getting to Know Me: What's Behind Psychoanalysis? Psychodynamic therapy has been caricatured as navel-gazing, but studies show powerful benefits: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=getting-to-know-me">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=getting-to-know-me</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Healing the Somatizations of Trauma:</strong> “The body remembers…Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves.” <a href="http://www.art-2-heart.com/articles.htm">http://www.art-2-heart.com/articles.htm</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;color:#ff0000;"><b>Technology, Culture, & Religion</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Virtual reality</strong> to help returning war vets and kids to re-imagine new futures? What happens at the intersection of technology and transformation? Inner Space: Technology’s New Frontier <a href="http://www.noetic.org/blog/inner-space-technologys-new-frontier/">http://www.noetic.org/blog/inner-space-technologys-new-frontier/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>When ideas have sex:</strong> throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas. It's not important how clever individuals are, he says; what really matters is how smart the collective brain is. TED video: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Powerful perspective:</strong> Waking Up: Terrorism and Depth Psychology <b>by Dr.</b> Mary Watkins, coauthor of Psychologies of Liberation: <a href="http://www.opusarchives.org/watkins_waking_up_article.pdf">http://www.opusarchives.org/watkins_waking_up_article.pdf</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Compulsive Buying:</strong> An Impulse-Control Disorder> There's some uncertainty among the mental health profession about whether to see overshopping as a genuine disorder or merely a bad habit <a href="http://bit.ly/ib4lku">http://bit.ly/ib4lku</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Americans Turning Over Electronics</strong> 400 Million Times per Year: Our consumption of high-tech electronics has far outstripped our ability to handle all the waste we're leaving behind with each new upgrade <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/12/americans-electronics-400-million-tackling-hi-tech-trash.php?campaign=th_rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29&utm_content=Twitter">http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/12/americans-electronics-400-million-tackling-hi-tech-trash.php?campaign=th_rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+treehuggersite+%28Treehugger%29&utm_content=Twitter</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><a>"Sacred" Abuses in the Name of God, Self, & Other: A Call for Clarity in Addressing Archetypal Truths</a>: <a href="http://www.michaelconfortiblog.com/?p=85">http://www.michaelconfortiblog.com/?p=85</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;color:#ff0000;"><b>Mind, Brain, & Neuroscience</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Scientists Prove Astrology,</strong> Call it "Seasonal Biology": Functional changes in brain based on birth month <a href="http://bit.ly/ignP9w">http://bit.ly/ignP9w</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Bees help to explain</strong> the link between intelligence and long life: <a href="http://bit.ly/fAawhU">http://bit.ly/fAawhU</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Sudden Understanding</strong>: Aha! insights favor the prepared mind: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060405234439.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060405234439.htm</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Thought Leaders</strong> Now Being Replaced By Feeling Leaders <a href="http://ow.ly/3rI6K">http://ow.ly/3rI6K</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;">Indigenous, Nature, Ecology, & Ecopsychology</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Thought-provoking</strong> and more than a little alarming! Is Wi-Fi killing trees? <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1332310/Is-Wi-Fi-killing-trees-Dutch-study-shows-leaves-dying-exposure-Wi-Fi-radiation.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1332310/Is-Wi-Fi-killing-trees-Dutch-study-shows-leaves-dying-exposure-Wi-Fi-radiation.htm</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Regarding climate change:</strong> How obliged are we to consider the situation of the “<em>other</em><em>”</em>: other species, the poor, or unborn generations NYT: <a href="http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/climate-responses-primal-easy-ethical-hard/">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/climate-responses-primal-easy-ethical-hard/</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>The environmental and climate</strong> justice movement isn't just about saving polar bears from melting ice, argues Bill McKibben. It's about rebuilding connection and community, changing the way human beings live <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/bill-mckibben-growing-global-movements65800">http://www.truth-out.org/bill-mckibben-growing-global-movements65800</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>The Medicine Wheel</strong> as a Symbol of Native American Psychology: The wheel represents the cycle of life…<a href="http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=908&Itemid=1">http://www.cgjungpage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=908&Itemid=</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>Free audio from Jungian events</strong>, includes “Don't Mess with Mother Nature: The Ecopsychology of Energy” <a href="http://www.junghouston.org/audio/default.htm">http://www.junghouston.org/audio/default.htm</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva;font-size:small;"><strong>There won't be a bailout for the earth</strong>: Global warming is yesterday’s apocalypse…. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-there-wont-be-a-bailout-for-the-earth-2143876.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-there-wont-be-a-bailout-for-the-earth-2143876.html</a></span></p><p> </p></div>Best of the Best this Week in “Depth” December 12, 2010https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/best-of-the-best-this-week-in2010-12-12T09:30:00.000Z2010-12-12T09:30:00.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">Depth Psychology</span></strong> is the study of the Unconscious, an inquiry into what we <em>don’t</em> know by looking at how psyche emerges in symbols, mythology, art, & dreams and how we live out the repressed, the silenced, & the marginalized in our personal lives and in the culture at hand. It explores our relationship to soul, and includes ideas from anthropology, cross-cultural studies, ecology, philosophy, theology, indigenous cultures, the arts, and more. Early pioneers of the field are Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung. Contemporary Depth Psychologists include James Hillman, James Hollis, Marion Woodman, Christine Downing, Micheael Meade, along with many others. One particular emerging aspect is how technology, neuroscience, and innovations in modern culture affect the psyche of humanity and individuals alike.</p><p></p><p><strong>Here is a look back at some of the week’s top Tweeted “soul bytes”</strong> (along with the intrepid @Tweeters who are responsible if you’re looking for great minds to “follow”)</p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Carl Jung & Jungian Topics: Dreams, Archetypes</strong></span></p><p>Forging meaning: In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, #Jung relayed his encounter with Native Americans in Taos in 1925... <a href="http://bit.ly/glbYOF">http://bit.ly/glbYOF</a></p><p>Enter the World of Soul and You are Like a Madman: Learnings from Carl Jung's Red Book: <a href="../blogs/enter-the-world-of-soul-and">http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/enter-the-world-of-soul-and</a> #depthpsychology</p><p>Living Mythically: Many people live their entire lives w/o any awareness of the #archetypes living through them. <a href="http://bit.ly/g3DGhj">http://bit.ly/g3DGhj</a></p><p>Compelling: Ariadne and the Minotaur: Love, Trauma & Abandonment - A Jungian Perspective: <a href="http://jungianwork.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/ariadne-and-the-minotaur-lovetrauma-abandonment-a-jungian-perspective/">http://jungianwork.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/ariadne-and-the-minotaur-lovetrauma-abandonment-a-jungian-perspective/</a> via @heidiko44 @AshevilleJungCt</p><p>Jung's Underworld journey: Not for the timid. Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination by Robert Moss: <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/dreamgates/2010/10/jungs-underworld-journey-not-for-the-timid.html#ixzz17PrwAm00">http://blog.beliefnet.com/dreamgates/2010/10/jungs-underworld-journey-not-for-the-timid.html#ixzz17PrwAm00</a></p><p>Carl #Jung believed the goal of life is not happiness, but meaning: Swamplands of the Soul by James Hollis: <a href="http://www.jungian.info/library.cfm?idsLibrary=26">http://www.jungian.info/library.cfm?idsLibrary=26</a></p><p>Why we should record our dreams: <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Dream-Journals---Why-We-Should-Record-Our-Dreams&id=4987910">http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Dream-Journals---Why-We-Should-Record-Our-Dreams&id=4987910</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Psychology, Therapy, Disorders, & Trauma</strong></span></p><p>The Myth Of Therapy: An Interview With James Hillman (1991)- <em>A brilliant & provocative thinker, reading Hillman is like stepping off a bus into the clamorous, exotic, slightly menacing streets of a foreign city:</em> <a href="http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/1032">http://www.thesunmagazine.org/archives/1032</a></p><p>Personality Disorders Shakeup in DSM-5: What are the replacements and what does it mean to you? <a href="http://bit.ly/fd6Yd3">http://bit.ly/fd6Yd3</a></p><p>Ethical? Worth considering? Mind-altering substances may induce profound psychological realignments that take decades in therapy: <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hallucinogens-as-medicine&sc=emailfriend">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hallucinogens-as-medicine&sc=emailfriend</a></p><p>What will it really do? Method to erase traumatic memories may be on the horizon - <a href="http://bit.ly/cDZNyy">http://bit.ly/cDZNyy</a></p><p>Recovering from #Trauma: The enduring effect of #war & terrorism in #PTSD in soldiers and civilians of #combat zones: <a href="http://bit.ly/i14tHw">http://bit.ly/i14tHw</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Technology & Culture</strong></span></p><p>It was bound to happen sooner or later: NYU Professor Gets Camera Implanted In Head For “Art “(Video available): <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/04/nyu-professor-gets-camera_n_792079.html?ref=tw">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/04/nyu-professor-gets-camera_n_792079.html?ref=tw</a></p><p>Amazon Conservation Team: Preserving Indigenous Cultures and Lands With GPS and Google Maps. <a href="http://www.greenmarketing.tv/2010/12/01/amazon-conservation-team/">http://www.greenmarketing.tv/2010/12/01/amazon-conservation-team/</a> via @WiserEarth @AmazonCT</p><p>UFOs, psychic phenomena, ghosts, Bigfoot? Increased interest in the paranormal has gone hand in hand with greater media attention and the rapid diffusion of the Internet: <a href="http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-five-december/paranormal-america-ghost-encounters-ufo-sightings/">http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-five-december/paranormal-america-ghost-encounters-ufo-sightings/</a></p><p><a href="http://projectworldawareness.com/2010/09/american-psychosis-what-happens-to-a-society-that-cannot-distinguish-between-reality-and-illusion/">American Psychosis: What happens to a society that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion?…</a><a href="http://projectworldawareness.com/2010/09/american-psychosis-what-happens-to-a-society-that-cannot-distinguish-between-reality-and-illusion/">http://projectworldawareness.com/2010/09/american-psychosis-what-happens-to-a-society-that-cannot-distinguish-between-reality-and-illusion/</a> via @PeterBrownPsy</p><p>AS A CULTURE, WE FEEL DEEPLY ambiguous about genius. Are we failing our gifted children?<a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653653,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653653,00.html</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Mind, Brain, & Neuroscience</strong></span></p><p>Your #brain lights up when #giving: The science behind creating a chain reaction of goodness: <a href="http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/spirit/archives/indulging-totally-selfish-joys-selfless-giving">http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/spirit/archives/indulging-totally-selfish-joys-selfless-giving</a></p><p>Synaesthesia: Asperger’s man sees emotions as #auras of color around other people: <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/11/auras.html?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0ab5dd44ff-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email">http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/11/auras.html?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0ab5dd44ff-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email</a></p><p>Naps boost memory, but only if you dream: <a href="http://nhne-pulse.org/naps-boost-memory-but-only-if-you-dream/">http://nhne-pulse.org/naps-boost-memory-but-only-if-you-dream/</a> RT @sunfellow</p><p>Why do You Turn Down the Radio When You’re Lost? (2006) The ability to multitask & pay <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23attention">#attention</a> to two things at once… <a href="http://bit.ly/biKL9">http://bit.ly/biKL9</a></p><p>Does Insomnia Shrink Your Brain? Bad sleep is not just a nuisance; it’s bad for the brain at a neurological level. <a href="http://news.discovery.com/human/insomnia-brain-sleep.html">http://news.discovery.com/human/insomnia-brain-sleep.html</a></p><p>Neuroscience and dreaming: Some biologically minded researchers would argue that both Freud and Jung are wrong about dreams' real purpose: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/edgeofdreaming/background.php#neuroscience">http://www.pbs.org/pov/edgeofdreaming/background.php#neuroscience</a></p><p>How to be a brilliant thinker: Developing Our Skills at Divergent and Convergent Thinking <a href="http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2010/11/different-thinking-is-needed/">http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/wordpress/2010/11/different-thinking-is-needed/</a></p><p></p><p><span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Nature, Ecology, & Ecopsychology</strong></span></p><p>The much anticipated <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23terrapsych">Terrapsych</a> anthology, Rebearths: Conversations with a World Ensouled just released on Amazon! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rebearths-Conversations-Ensouled-Craig-Chalquist/dp/0982627912/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1291506676&sr=8-4">http://www.amazon.com/Rebearths-Conversations-Ensouled-Craig-Chalquist/dp/0982627912/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1291506676&sr=8-4</a></p><p>Perfect Symmetry Between Humans and Nature: Is not everything in #nature a reflection of a feeling etched deep within the #consciousness of all human beings? <a href="http://resurgencetrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/perfect-symmetry-between-humans-and.html">http://resurgencetrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/perfect-symmetry-between-humans-and.html</a></p><p>Tips for giving Mother Earth a greener Christmas” <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/12/green-christmas-tips-save-mother-earth/1">http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/12/green-christmas-tips-save-mother-earth/1</a> via @catalogchoice</p><p>Climate change could kill up to 5 million people in the next 10 years—and most of them are <a href="http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2010/in-numbers/">children under the age of 5</a>: <a href="http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/12/children-hit-hard-climate-change?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2FTheBlueMarble+%28Mother+Jones+%7C+The+Blue+Marble%29&utm_content=Twitter">http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/12/children-hit-hard-climate-change?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2FTheBlueMarble+%28Mother+Jones+|+The+Blue+Marble%29&utm_content=Twitter</a> via @heidiko44 @MotherJones</p><p>Peru’s long-term survival depends on water from the glaciers of the high Andes. The problem is that all that ice will soon be gone. <a href="http://www.onearth.org/article/life-and-death-in-a-dry-land">http://www.onearth.org/article/life-and-death-in-a-dry-land</a></p><p>Save trees! US consumers get 19 billion catalogs yearly: app 3.6 M tons paper, 8.3 M tons wood, 53 M trees. Opt out at <a href="http://www.catalogchoice.org/">http://www.catalogchoice.org/</a></p></div>Sensitive people not all influenced by culture as reported by a new studyhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/sensitive-people-not-all2010-05-10T23:55:28.000Z2010-05-10T23:55:28.000Zchristophe morinhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/christophemorin<div>Could this suggest that emotional responses are deeply rooted in older brain structures? Very interesting piece of research, <a href="http://news.oneindia.in/2010/05/09/sensitivepersons-cognitive-responses-not-influenced-bycul.html">click here</a> for more.</div>