Category: psychology
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The Irreversible Change
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us, nor spare us — Marcel Proust Mental Disorders diminish the quality of a human life. Some — such as Bipolar Disorder — have a biological etiology, and are appropriately treated with medication. However, when the problem is…
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Loving the Truth
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. — George Santayana The poetic psychiatrist, R. D. Laing, asserted: “There is a lot of suffering in life. But the only suffering that can be avoided is the suffering that results from trying to avoid suffering.” We…
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Perseverance and Self-Efficacy
If one remained as careful at the end as at the beginning there would be no failure — Lao Tsu In contrast to ordinary language in which a word may mean different things in different contexts or to different people, technical terms have a single definition so there is less chance for miscommunication. Self-Efficacy refers…
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Determinism and Free Will
The human nervous system has become so complex, that it is able to affect its own states, making it functionally independent of its genetic blueprint, and of the objective environment. A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening "outside" just by changing the contents of consciousness. — Csikszentmihalyi Volition [also…