One of the more limiting assumptions people make about human nature is that all human actions have motives; the “everything happens for reasons” hypothesis. This disregards the more obvious truth that human beings have a nature, including inherent “drives”; the kinds of things we tend to do BECAUSE WE ARE HUMAN. Unfortunately, from about age…
To begin with, please forgive the dissertation. I’ve watched this change a lot during the past 30 years. The brief answer is, it’s more common now than previously. But it wasn’t always this way. Because of these changes, it may be helpful to briefly review how and why we got to where we are today….
Sarah, you ask what is surely one of the more difficult questions to answer honestly about Autism; can getting this diagnosis harm you? My first response may be hard to hear. In many ways, it can. Our world sees this diagnosis as indicating something is broken in the person. This is not true in my…
First, thanks so much, Mike, for what at first glance may appear to be but a simple, easily answerable question. In truth, any serious answer to this question will be far from simple. Why? Because our perception of color affects every single thing we say, do, feel, and think. Thus even a partially true answer…
Please forgive my snark, but at first glance, this question appears to be asking for the kinds of answers used to pass Psych 101 exams. You know, the kinds of answers which resemble over-cooked vegetables, in that they boil down a famous person’s life’s work to a few empty words or phrases. I could offer…
I’m always amazed by how people who have never contributed in any way to a profession can feel entitled to claim other peoples’ work in this profession is right or wrong. What I mean is, like Jung, Adler, and Janet, Freud was a rare bird. He was a full-blown personality theorist AND at the same time,…