Archive | July, 2014

Wisdom

27 Jul

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting thing you can be is inauthentic.

Wisdom

21 Jul

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George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Wisdom

21 Jul

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George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Postpartum depression

17 Jul

Researchers in Belgium found that suppressing positive emotions during pregnancy, rather than dwelling on negative ones, was associated with postpartum depression. (In Brief.(2014). Monitor on Psychology., 45(7), p. 20)

Wisdom

13 Jul

Alice Walker: The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Change

11 Jul

Safran and Muran observed that “the central paradox of the human change process is that it is only by letting go of our attempts to be something we are not that change can take place” (pp. 69-70. (Safran, J. D., & Muran, J. C. 2000. Negotiating the therapeutic alliance: A relational treatment guide. New York, NY: Guilford)

Crime & Mental Illness

6 Jul

Researchers in Minnesota found that serious mental illness had only a low relationship to criminal activity: 3% related to major depression, 4% to schizophrenia, and 10% to bipolar disorder. (In brief.Monitor on Psychology, 2014, June/August)

Wisdom

3 Jul

Fredrick Buechner: We condemn in others the wrong we don’t want to face in ourselves.