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This Week In Science History, May 6-12

Posted 05.13.2012

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Paging Dr. Freud--this week in science history marks the birthday of the father of psychoanalysis. Also this week historians of science are rememberin...

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Confession: Is Dr. Freud At War With Religious Beliefs?

Paul Wilkes | Posted 04.10.2012

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Confession seeks another truth -- the truth of our inherent worth and goodness, our basic purity of soul.

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The Nazi Who Saved Sigmund Freud

David M. Cohen | Posted 03.30.2012

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After Hitler came to power, many Jews saw the writing on the wall and left Germany. Einstein, for example, did so almost at once. But Freud steadfastly refused, even though many friends warned him that the Nazis were bound to take over Austria.

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Redon's Beautiful Delirium

Posted 03.20.2012

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Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon, made visible the ambiguous realm between sleep and waking. The French symbolist painter blurred...

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Women Surrealists Rule 'In Wonderland'

Posted 02.07.2012

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Not since Alice lost her way down the rabbit hole have we seen a wonderland so strange and delightful. In the first ever survey of women surrealists i...

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Breaking Yet Another Taboo -- Is It a Good Thing for Our Psyche?

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 03.06.2012

Incest in the arts and literature is not new -- going back as far as Greek mythology -- but it was almost always disguised or implied. Now these twisted romances are depicted in graphic detail for all to see.

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Giving Some Thought to 2012

Donna Jean Freberg | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Freud, Year of the Dragon, New Year Resolutions, 2012, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

As I contemplated what it is about myself I want to see, finally, for God's sake, transformed, or what I want to put at the top of my list to stop doing, or start doing this new year -- a thought suddenly comes to me... Am I lovable just as I am, right now, this very moment?

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When Soccer Crowds Get Depressed

Alan Black | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Freud, Chelsea, Socccer News, La Liga, Real Madrid, Soccer Crowds, Epl, Barcelona, Spanish Soccer, Soccer News, Villa-Boas, Sports News

Last weekend presented us with an excellent case study in this horrible affliction. The Bernabeu stadium in Madrid can be a noisy cauldron, But last Saturday, 99 percent of them sat for most of the game in depressive silence.

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Psychiatry And Modern Science: Perspectives On The DSM

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Psychiatry, Mental Disorders, Mental Illness, Psychodynamics, Talk Nerdy to Me, Freud, Diagnostics, Science, Psychology, Skepticism, Dsm, Robert Spitzer, Education News

The DSM is the go-to manual for diagnostic criteria of a wide range of mental disorders, but some question it's validity and reliability.

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Breaking Out Of Good Vs. Evil Morality

Deepak Chopra | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Blame, Morality, Good and Evil, Judgment, Freud, Superego, Blaming Others, God, Consciousness, Healthy Living News

Only when you realize that you have set yourself up as both judge and victim does the scheme of fear and guilt break down. It dawns on you that you are divided against yourself, and then your goals change.

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A Dangerous Method Is an Action Movie for Grownups

Erica Abeel | Posted 12.09.2011

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In A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg has fashioned the thinking person's action movie. Instead of cars exploding and weapons blasting, great minds duel over the forces driving human behavior during the period that saw the burgeoning of psychoanalysis.

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A Pair of "Neighborhood Kids" to Run in the Breeders' Cup

Liz O'Connell | Posted 12.05.2011

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In New York's upper Hudson Valley, it's high-five time for Giant Ryan and Weemissfrankie. Both horses were bred just up the road, both have won "Win and You're In" Breeders' Cup Challenge races and it looks like both are going to the Breeders' Cup!

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Lucien Freud's Unfinished Last Work To Go On Display

Posted 11.20.2011

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LONDON (AP) — The last work by Lucien Freud will be shown for the first time as part of an exhibition in London showcasing the late realist painter'...

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PHOTOS: Top 10 Artists' Muses and Mistresses

Posted 11.15.2011

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The old saying tells us that "Behind every great man there is a great woman," but oftentimes artists keep their beauties right where they can see them...

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In Toronto, Storytelling Takes Center Stage

Erica Abeel | Posted 11.11.2011

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A Dangerous Method is a triumph. Drawn from historical fact, it's a fairly straightforward account of the turbulent triangle formed by fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud, and the gifted but troubled patient who came between them.

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Keira Knightley: Sexually Dangerous

Posted 10.31.2011

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Oscar, paging Keira Knightley. Keira Knightley, Oscar is paging you. A year after Natalie Portman took home the Academy Award for portraying a sex-...

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Freud's Interest in the Occult

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro | Posted 10.28.2011

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Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris reawakened my interest in Anais Nin. She was the flapper who decided to stay La Belle Epoque at the end. (Oops, ...

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Third Noble Truth: In The Midst Of Suffering, There Is Release From Suffering

Lewis Richmond | Posted 10.04.2011

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Selfish behavior is a problem; it causes suffering for oneself and others. Self or identity is just a feature of our existence. We each have an identity; even Gautama Buddha had an identity.

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Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse

Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue | Posted 10.01.2011

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Obits eulogize. I would like instead to address some broader cultural issues raised by these two coincidentally paired departures.

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Keira Knightley's Psycho Drama

Posted 09.02.2011

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And here come the Oscar contenders. Deep into a summer of superhero blockbusters and romantic comedies, the first trailers for the year's dramatic ...

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The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden

Robert D. Stolorow | Posted 08.27.2011

Is there an alternative to ideological illusion and the rhetoric of evil? Yes, there is. We must remember our common human vulnerabilities and bring them into a collective conversation within which our existential anxiety can be held and better borne.

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"Idonomics" and the American Dream

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 08.08.2011

Over the past 50 years, the pleasure principle -- the id -- has dominated American society. The result has been "idonomics," in which the id dominates not only the marketplace, but also politics, media, technology and even our personal relationships.

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Moving Beyond A Human Image Of God

Jeffrey Small | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Questioning Faith, Philosophy, Atheism, Suffering, Christopher Hitchens, Freud, Sam Harris, Theology, Science, Christianity, God, Richard Dawkins, Judaism, Image of God, Anthropomorphic God, Spirituality, Religion News

The view of God as a supernatural being like us, only more powerful, is one of the principal reasons behind the rise of atheism in the Western world and the spiritual apathy of many people today.

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Remembering A Buddhist Psychotherapy Pioneer

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 05.25.2011

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Take a man trained in natural science, expose him to eastern religions and to West Coast therapy and the result was Hakomi.

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An Age of Radical Seeking (Part One)

Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Religion, The Inner Life, Spirituality, Self-Realization, Culture, Industrial Revolution, History of Ideas, Freud, History of Religion, Religion News

The end of the 19th century and onward was a significant period in the rise of spiritualism and mediums, general interest in esoteric matters, and the public emergence of occult movements.

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