The MindFields College Blog

I’ve been very helpfully informed about a petition (which is running until 3rd March 2007) on the Government’s website which anyone interested in effective therapy should sign. Pass this around if you agree and get as many signatures as possible
The motion is this:
“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to consider other psychotherapy approaches, not […]

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If you are interested in the Middle East conflict, I’ve just put up a fascinating article from a 2006 issue of the Human Givens Journal by John Bell.
He is the Middle East Director for Search for Common Ground and a founding member of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative and suggests that only a ‘radically different, […]

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Be sure to take a look at the 2nd SharpBrains blog carnival, which includes:
- The incredible relationship between the mind and the body,
- At the Receiving End of an Anxiety Disorder,
- Relax and Unwind - without spending any money,
- An interview with Aaron Beck on the history of Cognitive Therapy.
“If psychiatry is to […]

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Here is an oldish interview with Joe Griffin answering questions on REM sleep, depression, psychosis, trauma, conflict and cult behaviour, published in New Scientist in April 2003:
We live in mad times. The WHO predicts depression will soon rank second in the global disease burden, suicide rates are rising, and the trauma caused by war, conflict […]

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PsyBlog’s latest post is a wonderful summary of a study conducted in the 1962 by Schachter and Singer on the effects of expectation.. to avoid spoiling the aims of the experiment, I’ll just let you read the post:
“Euphoria induced by Experimental Trickery”
“To illustrate this nomination for my top ten psychology studies I’d like to tell […]

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“The Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco puts hardened criminals - including thieves and murderers - in charge of their own recovery and it doesn’t take a penny in grant money from the United States government.
Instead the residents support themselves - and each other - by running a string of businesses including a gourmet […]

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A study on sleep shows that rats who have less sleep have a higher level of stress hormone corticosterone, and produces less braincells in the region of the hippocampus. Another indication of the importance of getting the right amount of sleep - well in rats at least.

We constantly inform people about the importance of sleep […]

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I must admit I don’t know much about Scientology at all, apart from vague unformulated ideas about aliens and pictures of Tom Cruise looking positively manic, so I have only recently noticed that Scientology is very associated with the idea that mental health problems can be treated without drugs.
I had previously dismissed Scientology as some […]

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I read on the BBC news today about a study which supports a previously proposed link between loneliness and the development of Alzheimer’s. It suggests that elderly people are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s if they are lonely.
This is an interesting correlation, particularly when you look at it from a human givens perspective. If […]

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