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General discussion of psychology.
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Why would an attractive woman with a decent job marry a man that is psychopathic?
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Lets say that I have a friend that I have known for a long, long time. I am 99.9% sure that he is a text book psychopath. Recently, this "friend" of mine got married to an attractive women that has respectable job. You can't intimitaley know this guy without knowing he is off kilter and potentially dangerous; she dated him for over a year and half. If... more »
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Lucid Drreaming, Dream Interpretation, and More 37832
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Are you interested in learning more about dreams, their meaning, their mechanism and how to go about interpreting them? I have made this huge portal with endless amounts of information about dreams, dream research and everything related to it. It is completely free, the way the Internet should be. I just wanted to share the link, if you like what ytou find at the site drop me a line and let me know TIA :-)... more »
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Shared Delusions and Politics
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In Civilization and its Discontents (Unhappiness in Civilization), S. Freud wrote, "all religions are shared delusions." Since political parties have "beliefs" similar to those in religion, to what extent are political platforms and positions shared delusions? If not, when can we tell if an ideology has delusional status, or is it just a... more »
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Einstein "fingers" and relativity
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I remember once I read some comments from Einstein himself in which he somehow said that he could imagine what happen with space/time through some weird play with his own fingers. Seriously. I am a theoretical physicist myself and to me that was a very weird, confusing and unpedagogical thing to hear, but I found it interesting... more »
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brainwashing
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[link] The OED records its earliest known English-language usage of "brainwashing" by Edward Hunter in New Leader on 7 October 1950. During the Korean War, Hunter, who was working both as a journalist and a U.S. intelligence agent, turned out a steady stream of books and... more »
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Dr. Fucking Phil goes on shooting spree at Fort Hood...
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As almost everyone expected, the shooter in the Fort Hood massacre earlier today was a Muslim. What probably wasn't expected that was that he was a "mental health professional," in this case a psychiatrist. With a real medical degree and some training in the pseudoscience of psychology, the job of Major Malik Nadal Hasan was to profile soldiers... more »
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