Some ‘thinks’ only a psychologist can believe!

Tapas- bit this and that

Primal/foundational beliefs, new term to lay on your friends, Rollo May to the rescue, oops! mindfulness not always to the rescue,  anti-woke warriors and response to such...

Taekwondo Research and a walk down memory lane for this old man

The impact on conduct/behaviour of Taekwon Do with kids and opportunity to wax poetic on my involvement in the sport!

Cleaning up the desk!!!

Latest psychological data on Tylenol, Nudge qualified, implicit bias training effects, Rap to the rescue, and clowns in the hospital!

APA 2021 Articles

Each year APA adds up which articles garnered most attention that year. Here they are!

O.K. Long holiday break...time on my hands ...so quicker podcast and interesting topic...

Pornography has united the left and the right in regards to concerns for its impact upon individuals involved as consumers and performers: a response to Billie Elish’s comments on the impact of porn upon her sense of sexuality.

Speaking with kids! a psychoanalyst weighs in on either/or questions in treatment and assessment

Closed ended vs. open ended enquiry through the lens of conversational implicature and limited ‘language games’...huh?

The ongoing conversation about vaccination- A review of Offit‘s book YOU BET YOUR LIFE

Useful conversations on the issue of vaccination in the interest of polarization avoidance: the costs of medical innovation weighed and measured

Will they all become hippies? An Article Review-Moral Psychopharmacology Needs Moral Inquiry: The Case of Psychedelics

The issue of standards and ethics and efficacy in psychedelic therapy has been discussed but what of the moral/cultural/political ramifications of this intervention (watch for where he says nirvana but meant Valhalla)

More psychology that goes bump in the night

Brain implants/zap for the OK, use the supernatural to evoke better behaviour, more psychedelic research, and after death family therapy! 

The ‘genes‘ we wear...

To go from phenotypic expression to underlying basis for such with an emphasis upon genes