Random Thought: Everyday Mitzvah, II

Yes, a mitzvah is a potent teaching tool. For if Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Seligman, Deepak Chopra, Jon Kabat-Zin, Jack Kornfield, Parker Palmer, Daniel Goleman, Peter Senge, I, and a host of others whom Ive mention over time are right when we say in various ways that we teach who we are,

smiles

One of my students sent me this link. This is the kind of "fun" psychology my students are always sending me, and it is entertaining, if not particularly scientific. The professor is same one referenced in the book BLINK.

DSM-IV Criticisms

Hi Tipsters, I've been asked to do a one-hour presentation of the DSM-IV to a group of community counsellors. They are all somewhat familiar with the book of course, but they would like more info on its organization, usage, and criticisms. I'd like to know if anyone out there

End of the semester

I got this response back from a colleaque after I shared with him Louis' email about being zombies (the students and ourselves) at the end of the semester. I think my colleaque made a good point. Nina Nina, As tired as they

Re: DSM-IV Criticisms

Not sure what you mean by criticisms but here's something: Making Us Crazy by Herb Kutchins and Stuart Kirk, 1999 There's also an online article by the same authors here: The Myth of the Reliability of DSM http://www.academyanalyticarts.org/kirkkutchins.htm --- Original Message - From:

Re: DSM-IV Criticisms

I thought this article was very interesting Widiger, TA Clark, LA (2000). Toward DSM-V and the classification of psychopathology. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 946-963. Marie Michael Lee wrote: Not sure what you mean by criticisms but here's something: Making Us Crazy by Herb Kutchins

Re: Neuroscience text

Carol, I've taught Brain Behavior and Physiological Psych. which are both similar to Behavioral Neuroscience and for both classes I used Biological Foundations of Human Behavior by Josephine Wilson. It is in its first edition. My students seemed to really like the text. Nina Hi, I'm in the

RE: End of the semester

But, that wasn't the point of my RT. Make it a good day. Louis Louis Schmierwww.therandomthoughts.com Department of Historywww.halcyon.com/arborhts/louis.html Valdosta State University Valdosta, Georgia 31698/\ /\

Survival of the FATTEST - book

Dear Tipsters: I would like to bring to your attention the book listed below, shortly to be published. It puts forward a detailed, major theory of just why human beings have evolved in such a unique pattern. It draws on the Hardy/Morgan Aquatic Ape hypothesis (now recast as a

Re: DSM-IV Criticisms

See the great work of Jerome Wakefield,Scott Lilienfeld, and Houts (forgot his first tame. These arethe best critics of DSM in my view, although each from very different perspectives. Paul Okami - Original Message - From: Marie Helweg-Larsen To: Teaching in the

RE: smiles

I got 17 out of 20- That's a good B isn't it? :) Is this going to count toward the final grade? Can this count for extra credit if we do several of them? One of the ones was a tricky one and didn't play right so . . . Oops! Forgot myself for a moment there. (getting close to finals time).

Survival of the Fattest - new book

Dear Tipsters: I would like to bring to your attention the book listed below, shortly to be published. It puts forward a detailed, majortheory of just why human beings have evolved insuch a unique pattern. It draws on the Hardy/Morgan Aquatic Ape hypothesis (now recast as a shore-based