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Radical Acceptance
Read more: Radical AcceptanceA possibility for your on-deck reading pile: Radical Acceptance, by Tara Brach. A favorite in the genre for some. I could summarize, but I’ll radically accept the job done by Publishers Weekly and posted on Amazon: Brach offers readers a rich compendium of stories and techniques designed to help people awaken from what she calls…
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Ovulation, Personality, and Perception
Read more: Ovulation, Personality, and PerceptionThree from PsychCentral: Racier Clothing Choices for Ovulating Women Adult Behavior Follows Childhood Personality Brain Activity Influenced by Perceptions and Attitude
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Should We Manipulate Our Dreams?
Read more: Should We Manipulate Our Dreams?The NYT asks assorted pros an Inception-inspired question: “Nightmares have been seen variously as omens or sources of self-knowledge. Should we replace them with happier dreams?”
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A Life in Therapy
Read more: A Life in TherapyMy Life in Therapy, from the NYT Magazine, has Daphne Merkin recalling years spent in psychoanalysis. Projection. Repression. Acting out. Defenses. Secondary compensation. Transference. Even in these quick-fix, medicated times, when people are more likely to look to Wellbutrin and life coaches than to the mystique-surrounded, intangible promise of psychoanalysis, these words speak to me…
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Animal Emotion
Read more: Animal EmotionScienceDaily: Emotions help animals to make choices Happy? Angry? Anxious? How can we measure animal emotions? To understand how animals experience the world and how they should be treated, people need to better understand their emotional lives. A new review of animal emotion suggests that, as in humans, emotions may tell animals about how dangerous or…