As stress grows, modern Chinese turn to Western psychotherapy
When Li Xianyun began working as a psychiatrist at Hui Long Guan Hospital in Beijing in 1991, she did not discuss her job in public. People thought it was strange, she says, and they assumed she worked in an insane asylum. Now, those she meets are eager to learn more about her profession.
“If I tell them I’m a psychiatrist and talk about my job, they show ………….
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How to banish earworms from your brain
Although it seems maddeningly impossible, new research suggests we really can get rid of that nagging tune that endlessly plays over and over again in our head.
For those of you who had Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” in your head for most of 2012, or haven’t been able to stop your brain from playing “Master of the House” since seeing “Les Miserables” over the holidays, you’ll want to take note.
The trick is this: …………read more
http://bodyodd.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/02/16308348-how-to-banish-earworms-from-your-brain
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The gap between two cultures is not a gap
In Indonesia I once visited a small island called Sumba. It is famous for its wonderful, powerful, small horses and famous for its tradition of burried people in the middle of the village.
Since years people of Sumba get accustomed to Christian religion. One thing which astonished me all over Indonesia was the fact that often both traditions were accepted at the same time, the Christian and the old Animistic believe-tradition (Marapu). Here an example:
A very old couple decided …………
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100 years of women’s issues in China…. baby, you’ve come along
A close relative recently passed away at the ripe old age of 100. Born in 1912 in China, her life story documents how far Chinese women have come in the past 100 years. This is a tribute to her fortitude, courage and optimism in spite of gender issues, war and famine in the early years of her long eventful life………
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Smelling: Examination of ‘true’ autobiographical memories
The sense of smell is set apart from other sensory modalities. Odours possess the capacity to trigger immediately strong emotional memories. Moreover, odorous stimuli provide a higher degree of memory retention than other sensory stimuli. Odour perception, even in its most elemental form – olfaction – already involves limbic structures. This early involvement is not paralleled in other sensory modalities………..
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Stranger – Danger or:
(N)ever talk to a stranger
I of course agree to the six rules for children in order to prevent any kind of bad experience, so that they can keep their boundaries.
But to be honest, I want to talk about meeting strangers in the life as youth and adult.
Globalization is based on meeting strangers, strange people, strange cultures, strange behavior. So, to survive or ……….
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Sex and moral
Relating to my post on Petraeus and the issue of sex and politics in the US, I want to put it in another way: to have this love affair, Petraeus as well as others who did the same (men or women), proof the fact that moral categories never can win against love and sex in this way.
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant was convinced that being rational, man can suppress love and sex by his rational conviction. Here ………………
Read MoreStrange is strange is not strange…..it`s me!
In German we have at least five different aspects of “strange”. Or so to say five different ways of understanding “strange”:
1. a stranger looks strange or behaves strange, in the way that I perhaps never have seen before.
2. not to be familiar with something or someone.
3. stranger in the sense of foreigner, coming i.e. from another country or culture
4. strange can also mean “to be different to oneself”
Read MoreMore about body psychotherapy
Having posted some information about body psychotherapy tthree days ago I was asked to talk more aout it. So here is more about it. You will find body psychotherapists all over the world. Except in Africa and many parts of Asia. So if you are interested ask the specific organisations which are listed at Wikipedia. Or ask me, I will support you as much as I can. So don`t hesitate. 😉
“Body psychotherapy,[1][2][3] also called body-oriented psychotherapy or somatic psychology, is a branch of psychotherapy[4], with origins in the work of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud and particularly Wilhelm Reich who developed it as vegetotherapy……..
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