Anna Freud

Secret information? Okay, probably not much remains truly hidden 或者 forbidden anymore, but there are little secrets about how things work. Salesmen, politicians, and others learn and use subtle techniques to influence you. "Lucky people" use little-known tricks to get that way. Here are some examples.

Controling Through Words

There is a classic joke, "Have 你 stopped beating your wife?" It is difficult to answer without incriminating yourself. This technique of the implicit premise is used 由 politicians for 更多 than jokes. Get everyone to argue about how to do something, for example, like...

Have 你 ever wondered why your spouse, coworkers, 或者 children seem to think so differently from you? 你 may not understand why they make the decisions they do, 或者 why they place such importance on things that seem inconsequential to you. It is possible to understand the 答案 to all these questions. The secret lies in the theory of Myers-Briggs personality type.

In the 1960's a psychological theorist named Katharine Briggs had many of the same 问题 你 do. She wondered why some of her family members had such logical, linear thinking processes, when she herself was 更多 likely to take...

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Ablutophobia- Fear of washing 或者 bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching 或者 of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, 或者 airbourne noxious substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces 或者 of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a 安全 place.
Agraphobia- Fear of sexual...

Americans spend 更多 on gambling than all other recreation combined. For most, it's a fun diversion but for a few, gambling can become a serious, life-altering problem.

Problem gambling is behavior that causes disruptions in any major area of a person's life. It affects as many as six to nine million Americans.

Would 你 recognize a gambling problem in someone 你 know? It may be easier if 你 know the signs. Here are some 问题 from the National Council on Problem Gambling. If 你 或者 someone 你 know 答案 yes to any of the following questions, it is likely that gambling has become problematic....

We all know how smoking can be a hard to quit habit for thousands, if not millions, of people across the globe. Yeah, smoking sucks and 你 may be in the situation when smoking is 更多 like a drug for you. Unfortunately for you, smoking can kill you, so it is best to quit as soon as possible. But... is NLP the answer?

According to studies, NLP has proven to be an effective method to quit smoking forever. However is not as simple as going through a session and Voila!! Problem solved.

Certains conditions must be met in order to NLP treatment to work. Let's go over this conditions:

1.A true desire...

最近的 studies buttress the unpalatable truth that falling in 爱情 is, in some ways, indistinguishable from a severe pathology. Behavior changes are reminiscent of psychosis and, biochemically speaking, passionate 爱情 closely imitates substance abuse. Appearing in the BBC series Body Hits on December 4, Dr. John Marsden, the head of the British National Addiction Center, 说 that 爱情 is addictive, akin to cocaine and speed. Sex is a "booby trap", intended to bind the partners long enough to bond.

Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University...

New Research Indicates that Antidepressants May Not Be Significantly 更多 Effective Than Placebo.
During the past couple of decades, drugs from the class of antidepressants called SSRIs, as well as newer drugs with novel modes of action, have been 给 credit for helping many people reclaim their lives from the devastating grips of depression. These drugs have also been responsible for making their manufacturers very wealthy. But, what if these drugs don't really provide significant relief for depression at all? What if the placebo effect is responsible for most of their effectiveness?

Surprising...

If you've ever been around someone who is persistently miserable you'll find that they have a working strategy for making their experience unpleasant for themselves.

This 文章 will give a few explanations why they use a strategy that makes them miserable, how that process works, and if this describes you, why 你 might want to change. It will also describe what you'll have to sacrifice if 你 no longer want to be miserable.

Also, if the benefits of being miserable are enough you'll learn how to continue to make choices and decisions that contribute to your misery.

The Benefits of Misery....

I. Exposition

In the movie "Shattered" (1991), Dan Merrick survives an accident and develops total amnesia regarding his past. His battered face is reconstructed 由 plastic surgeons and, with the help of his loving wife, he gradually recovers his will to live. But he never develops a proper sense of identity. It is as though he is constantly ill at ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack. This thriller offers additional twists and turns but, throughout it all, we face this question:

Dan has no recollection of being Dan....

Norman Doidge, m.d.
2007 – 427 pages


The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries. In this revolutionary look at the brain, bestselling author, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., introduces both the brilliant scientists championing this new science of neuroplasticity and the astonishing progress of the people whose lives they’ve transformed

Introducing principles we canal use as well as a riveting collection of case histories – stroke patients...

With the end of the Cold War, the threat of a world nuclear war has diminished considerably. It may be hard to imagine that in the end, comedians may be exploiting the humor in the fact that it wasn't nuclear warheads, but "French fries" that annihilated the human race, when considering that 食物 addictions and their related diseases now afflict 更多 people globally than malnutrition. The behavioral addiction disorders (e.g., 食物 addictions, pathological gambling, and other obsessively-compulsive behavioral-patterns to religion, and/ 或者 sex / pornography, etc.) are just as damaging, psychologically...

This is a very strange but true story. Not everyone believes in ghosts but I do and I have had several experiences with the super natural, this is only one of my encounters.

This happened when I was only (8) eight years old.

My bus driver's wife had a kitten and she wanted to get rid of it so she offered it to me first and of course I took the female kitten from her. Now this was the first cat that I can remember owning, she was a black and white cat and for some reason I gave her the name Dozier. She was a very sweet cat and she truly was mine because she was every where that I was.

Now we had...