Wednesday, April 29, 2009

How To Check The Balance On My Usaa Card

FlyKKiller / Pati Yang

talked a while ago, a friend and I email us about music. On that occasion, she made me aware of Pati Yang and said that to me this kind of music could have fallen too - How true!



run the last few weeks, the sounds of Pati Yang or FlyKKiller ( a , 2 ), which Pati Yang is one of the often with me and when I heard the fitness FlyKKiller again, I thought they would also have a place earned on my blog.

And here are two more songs. The first song Fear is also of FlyKKiller during All that is thirst to Pati Yang's solo CD Silent Treatment is found.

Thanks for the tip ;-) Gina

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Print Monopoly Proprty Cards

The empathic brain - Nadia Zaboura

Recently, the topic is mirror neurons always sometimes run into. Reason enough to be so thorough to be employed term. After a short search I have age then 'The empathic brain' by Nadia Zaboura and 'empathy and mirror neurons' by Giacomo Rizzolatti , one of the discoverers of mirror neurons ordered.

Now to the actual book. In nine chapters explains Nadia Zaboura how to create the mirror neurons in their view, the basis for inter-subjective understanding, empathy and human communication. After a short introduction, 'Humanity: A mental or biological phenomenon', which at the very beginning of the book on the dichotomy points to be falling into what the current research community seems to (more on that later), followed by three historically motivated chapter, which of Descartes on Husserl to Merleau-Ponty rich and abundant giving insight into the historical development of the mind-body debate.

The fifth chapter gives then more evidence-oriented way back the main findings of the mirror neuron research and thus serves as a basis for last four chapters that discuss these findings from a social science focus, and probably represent the real concern of the book.

addition to the many facts and suggestions for new ideas that has given me this book, I am above all surprised by the above-mentioned dichotomy of the publications that we in this research area, and even find in this book . While reading I often feel that they author themselves on an emotional level very strongly connected to the humanistic ideas and feel from this point of view the ideas of other neuroscientists like Singer and Roth (which they seem to frequently refer to, without calling them, however) as dangerous and undermining feels. An attitude that reminds me as a physicist at times to the wave-particle dualism debate, which only in the quantum mechanics of the 20th Century took their resolution.

Admittedly, the neurosciences to me a relatively new field, but after all that I have read seems to me that Singer, probably the most popular representative, neurological determinism 'is mainly in his reflections on, stimulus-response' approaches focused (as they are experimentally directly measurable), while the representatives of the 'free will' primarily on longer time frameworks, such as ontogeny, or even argue the phylogeny. From this perspective, forcing his way for the physicists back to the analogy to quantum mechanics, because Newton's laws, which our everyday world of experience describes well the time is relatively long scales, and what we are because of their history, as intuitively plausible consider (as a parallel to humanism ), it appears as a special case for macroscopic systems in quantum mechanics, without competing with them.

This seems to me in some ways also be the case in neuroscience, for each of the two orientations appears in its own sphere of producing surprisingly good, and above all verifiable and reproducible interpretations and predictions. It is only the phase transition between these two spheres of action, which is neither the one nor the other is theory. Analogous to the history of quantum mechanics, we could conclude that the evidence not just of this phase transition can be caused by the expansion of a phase (or even an ideology) to the detriment of others. Rather it is about the abstraction of the current state of the distillate, both ideologies arise as special cases. In other words, it is about the overall epistemological authority.

All in all, to once again come to the book back, but it was interesting to indulge in his thoughts and perspectives and to include it, even though in places it was in terms of usage and complexity quite onerous.


Monday, April 20, 2009

Do I Have To Wax My Surfboard Every Time

The Panama hat - or what makes a good therapist - Irvin D. Yalom

If I encountered when browsing the bookstore for a book with the subtitle "What makes a good therapist ', I would have probably very quickly back on the shelf back made because usually arouse titles in the style of living of the mass market cht Ratings their insights in lei spray-to-follow imperatives, all my skepticism. The structure of the book, and the headings, which are too 'catchy' talk, I do not really and honestly, I was also surprised that Yalom has chosen this format to various aspects of his 45-year career as a psychotherapist on to to give because of the recent books, but especially from his textbook ' Existential Psychotherapy ', I know him as a very scientific-minded author learned.

But just a particular case against skepticism is a prejudice which has in the absence of detailed knowledge fully justified (for prejudices to give us guidance on how we can deal with things for which we have no experience). You just have to be willing to revise his prejudices in the light of new findings. And so it happened to me relatively quickly, as I look at this book because of my good experiences so far with Yalom undertook.

describes in 85 chapters, the most influential Yalom's therapeutic work Erfarungen to basic questions. Just over half of the book is, as this was hardly different, the relationship between the therapist and the client paid. A subject which occupies but in all his books a central role in its association with the 'here-and-jetzt' concept for me but had held some eye-openers. The way, as Yalom manages the pathologies for which he is visited by his client during the meetings with them to reproduce and to look at this moment as symptoms between therapist and patient (and not as often distorted perception already gone events) was very instructive for me. I like in this context, Yalom believes that the therapist is much less with respect to the archaeological work the past the patient and for that more should focus on its interaction in the present. Such a view, which is more common in the newer branches of psychotherapy enriched, in my view, the classical psychoanalysis a lot easier and makes this much for my sense of human and appreciative.

The other three areas that make up the other half of the book are dedicated to 'the next to the very practical procedural issues in psychotherapy or the use of dream material in psychoanalysis as well as the potentials and perils of psychotherapeutic work from the perspective of the therapist .

All in all a book of which I do have some benefits. Although it convinced me not to the same extent as the previous books, which I know from Yalom spring, but give reason for my skepticism described above, I have always ;-).

Friday, April 17, 2009

Average Speed Of A Pedistal Fan

Love's Executioner - Irvin D. Yalom

After I had great pleasure in the last three books of Yalom I have read over the past several weeks, I'm in continue this direction is the same today and put "Love's Executioner" in front. After two novels ( The Schopenhauer Cure , and Nietzsche wept ) and a reference book ( Existential Psychotherapy ), it is at this point of Yalom's a collection of 10 case examples from his own practical experience.


Who Yalom somewhat better known, will hardly be surprised by his attitude, technique and emotional closeness, but unlike the other books, to you I have read about him, comes to my mind in This book is an important aspect in the foreground - the humanity of the therapist. While we, for example, Frankl Writings come across plenty of narcissism, we find Yalom at the place where an enormous willingness to challenge himself and to his own too-human needs become aware, and this with an openness to address that I have rarely seen in this form.

skillfully evokes Yalom respect with his trademark empathy and very entertaining writing style, the curiosity of the reader of each individual case, which he describes, and is still a balance between these vertical exploration of case studies and the overall horizontal exploration of the foundations of his form of psychotherapy. A notation, which is equally the curiosity, as well as the intellect of the reader turns and in neither case is leaving the foundation of empathy.

whom the novels ' The Schopenhauer Cure ' and ' and Nietzsche wept ' too philosophical and the reference book ' Existential Psychotherapy ' systematically is passed to these ten insights into the clinical work of a humanistic-existential psychotherapists have influenced his joy.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

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Existential Psychotherapy - Irvin D. Yalom

Yesterday afternoon I was in the sun on the lake, enjoying the sound of water lapping, the burgeoning landscape and the joy of feeding people around the summer. In this comfortable environment, I then read the final pages of the book which made me very busy the last two weeks (and probably also employ many will).


After the two novels ( The Schopenhauer Cure and Nietzsche Wept ), which I have read by Yalom, received more I feel like this work because it is both Yalom narrative style that brings a lot of Entertaining in his lyrics, and his perspective on our world that I have in many ways very rewarding and refreshing think. Although we can certainly count on the guild Yalom, the analyst, but he manages to uproot the past heavily embossed and deterministic worldview of the analysis and in one, new to our time more fertile ground to settle.

Sun Yalom itself speaks not of a formal new school, let alone a new organization called "existential psychotherapy". Rather, it recognizes the Potential of the tools of various psycho-therapeutic schools (although he clearly analytical thinking and acting, he is still frequently in other approaches such as Gestalt therapy and systemic therapy on and lights out), it encourages them, however, a new existential perspective as a basis. One view, in my opinion, today's society is a lot fairer than the views of classical analysis, which was created in parallel to the outbreak of the Fin de Siècle in an almost Victorian dominated social order.

from what is, therefore, this new ground? For Yalom, it is quite existential things such as death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness, that we face as humans have to learn very early on and therefore already in these early years to deal with it. We often meet this challenging task by the fear that emanates from such existential matters, into a concrete fear, which makes it comprehensible and manageable. Due to the fact that the man be further developed, results from this translation of anxiety in fear of a shift, which usually has a growth retardant. The resulting dynamics of the growth inhibition Yalom attempts by his existential approach to the roots of anxiety due to this fear again, but this time with a greater wisdom and power to make than you could at an early age. We realize that it is not is a new psychological method, but tried and trusted methods of different directions, which show the light of a new issue (death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness) wider range of colors.

Below Yalom's great detail on each of the four thematic areas. lighted in the first and longest chapter on the death, he the fact that the man used a lot of life energy on the fear of death, which was formed at an early age to deny. On the basis of far-reaching effect of this fear Yalom describes vividly in many clinical examples, how tricky it can be the resulting shifts and how attentive a psychotherapist in return must be in order to approach this issue successfully. Over the years, however, have emerged for Yalom two basic types of these shifts.

For one, the belief in one's own sanctity and special nature 'and the resulting desire for autonomy, power, efficiency and control. Ie values that are found in many areas of our society and the well may be the shadow of one and the same (existential-) fire.

On the other Yalom describes, the belief in the last savior ', which originally comes strongly into play in the religious context, not felt in today's secular society in other ways makes. Shall enter today often a partner, parents or another (sometimes weaker, sometimes stronger) individual to the point of the last savior, or even by the patient is there called, without being aware of the precise about this feature.

When specifically the displacement 'of the last savior' view, one quickly comes to a second major part in Yalom extensive work - the freedom. Because in parallel with the development of pathological power differential, which is the basis for this strategy of life, is the rejection of the associated responsibility for his own life. Therefore not known to me in plasticity, Yalom out a hand in this existential perspective based on a number of literary texts, as he skilfully the gamut in psychotherapy and this underpinned with really interesting case studies. It is wonderful to read how Yalom the philosophical approaches of thinkers such as Nietzsche, Camus, Sartre ( a , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ) or Heidegger enriched with everyday people and respect them as completed literally in my eyes. Anyone with the texts of the above-mentioned philosophers been able to gain something will be delighted by this chapter. To me the lyrics to freedom, or rather, the threat to art, giving us the full responsibility for our lives only in our two, sometimes weak, puts his hands extremely interesting.

illuminated in the section on isolation of the author in addition to the interpersonal and intrapersonal isolation mainly the special form of existential isolation, and shows its potential Expression by one of the previous mentioned types of insulation. Closely related to the burden of freedom, which we at times like in the hands of others, we would probably put minded people, even the burden of ultimate solitude with themselves that is alleviated only superficially by the presence of closely related people. Yalom also shows again using impressive clinical case examples and many references, that it is indeed a basis for growth-oriented relationship to other people, this existential fear of isolation and the other species to break up the isolation and to identify them as what they really are.

The last major section in Yalom work is devoted to the sense or in its pathological expression, the absolute absence of meaning, and he draws heavily on the ideas of Viktor Frankl . Here I would have definitely wanted some other thoughts constructs. What was interesting however, was Yalom perspective on the genesis of Frankl's theory and thus their focus. By Yalom remarks to Frankl's ideas, this construct has widened dramatically for me and also something to the other port, to me interesting constructs found.

By construction, the structure and writing is very accessible work Yalom and look interesting. Each of the four major chapters contains separate chapters or sections on the introduction to the actual subject matter, the effects and the detection of various pathologies, and the discussion of a possible therapeutic approach. But the wealth of information and the extensive nature of the thought constructs the reader calls in a special way. This is anything but a burgeoning criticism of a fantastic insight for me into one, I really home feeling perspective on the people of today. A truly enriching book, which I anyone who can create an interest in psychotherapy and / or philosophy only to the heart.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Caxton Publishing Company

Panic - Henry Bromell

The film has just finished and I can still hear the last notes of the credits, see the last pictures of father and son, and feel the last tears, as they slowly dry on my cheeks.


Actually I denFernseher made out of boredom, and had not seen before really far. Typically in such a mood I zap around a bit until I fall asleep then. But already covered the first images of this movie captivated me so that I have the remote control put away, all the lights off and the pictures seem to me to read.

Alex (William H. Macy) has two jobs. In his apartment, he runs a small mail order business and sells kitchen utensils just like adult products. The true maintenance for his family but with Alex earned his second career: He kills people. He learned the profession from his father, who still runs the business and for the Alex has been working his youth. But approaching the more Alex's own son on the age at which Alex is the first time fired a weapon, the more hits his almost innate appearing dysthymia into a deep crisis.

To get hold of himself again to be turned to a psychoanalyst, Alex, in the waiting room he meets Sarah (Neve Campbell), whose mysterious and melancholy lightness, it captivates. But later, as a few weeks, his father handed him the envelope with the documents for his new job begins the prelude to a dramatic end.

In many places, this film has on me, Lost in Translation 'recalls. There is, for a sentimental expression of sad that Bill Murray and William H. Marcy divide. On the other hand, it is certainly the meeting of the father in middle age and the young girl, usually so transcendent themes makes sense and freedom for the viewer subliminally tangible, without ever directly addressing. But above all things, there are the fantastic images that slow, almost gentle settings and really appropriate music, which convey a strong sense of what is really never spoken directly.