The bladder, kidneys, lumbar region, haunches to buttocks, adrenal glands, lumbar nerves and blood vessels.
Kidney and bladder disorders, eczema, lumbago, abscesses. Read the rest of this entry »
The best way to interpret a chart is to do it logically. Find a routine that suits you and stick to it and, unless you are already an accomplished astrologer, keep things very simple. Use only the normal and very obvious planets and features on a chart and deal with only the major aspects. In time you will find a system that suits you, but, in case you really don’t know where to start, I shall show you mine.
First of all make up a natal chart and then work out a set of day-for-a-year progressions. Place the progressions around the natal chart (using a different coloured ink, if working by hand) and also make a separate list of them to refer to. Keep a notebook handy for your findings. Read the rest of this entry »
Scorpios are drawn to the religious and austere professions. Many ministers, priests and nuns have a great deal of Scorpio influence in their chart. However, they can also use these professions to cloak their deeply passionate and sexual natures which they sometimes find disturbing. Passion and anger can be all-too-comfortable bedfellows with guilt and self-loathing — watch that you don’t curl that sting back on yourself. Read the rest of this entry »
A very pleasing personality, as the Piscean is melodious and psychic and the Rat well versed in taking care of his family and interests. A subject formed by the combination of these two signs will always be able to demonstrate his creativity, even if he is shy and not desirous of facing the public. He could be a prolific writer because of the Fish’s deep appreciation of human emotions. Read the rest of this entry »
Pleasant aspects will stimulate your mind and take you into new realms of thought. Original and unusual ideas can be successfully pursued. Computers, astrology, science and other modern techniques will appeal to you, while teaching and studying are other possibilities. You should make new friends and become involved in institutions, groups and social clubs that are stimulating and amusing. A new job or a new way of doing a current one are possible. You may become involved in alternative therapies and spiritual_ healing and your intuition level will increase dramatically. Read the rest of this entry »
In Feng Shui, the house actually symbolizes the person. The door is the mouth, the rooms oneither side of the main door are the lungs, the center is the heart, the back door is the anus, the roof is the head, and the windows are the eyes and ears. The house should be symmetrical, like the human body.
When the house is awkwardly shaped, or if something is missing, it affects our well-being. If it sits on precarious or unstable land, the people inside are likely to feel unstable. lf we open the door every day and there is a wall or tree directly in front of it, we are constantly confronting an obstruction. Read the rest of this entry »
It is only in certain exceptional relationships that couples do not experience at least short periods apart. It is said that Paul and Linda McCartney never spent a single night away from each other in their 29 years of marriage; if true, this is a miraculous achievement. The reality for most couples is that one partner needs to spend time away from home occasionally, perhaps for work or family matters, or to pursue independent leisure pursuits. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the most fascinating and cutting-edge methods of interpretive dreamwork involves transforming dream stories into waking narratives. This is a powerful form of dream role play that allows you and your partner to explore the middle ground between the conscious and unconscious, to bring to the surface unconscious fears or other difficulties in order to face up to them, or to rewrite troublesome dreams. Developing dream stories helps you build up self-esteem, and encourages intimacy with your partner, bringing cohesion to the relationship. Using this method, you can work together with your partner to isolate your emotional and behavioral weak spots and shore them up in ways that side-step defensive psychological barriers. Read the rest of this entry »
Behavior therapy emphasizes the current conditions that maintain a behavior, the conditions that keep it going. This form of therapy focuses on the problem, not on the person. A psychology professor who I once had, Elizabeth Klonoff, likened behavior therapy to a weed-pulling process. Psychoanalysts attempt to pull the weed up by its roots so that it’ll never come back, but behavior therapists pluck the weed from the top, and if it grows back, they pluck it again. The origins of a problem are not as important as the conditions that keep it going. Who cares how you started smoking. The important part is the factors that keep you smoking.
Behavior therapy is based on the learning theories of Ivan Pavlov’s classical conditioning, B.F. Skinner’s operant conditioning, and Albert Bandura’s social learning theory. All behavior is learned, whether it’s healthy or abnormal. Read the rest of this entry »
The workplace spawns some of our most challenging relationships. It is the one place outside the family where we are obliged to interact closely with others, through circumstance, not choice. The inevitable conflicts that emerge at work are often dismissed as office politics, which is small comfort, as we must still find a way to get along with our colleagues and work effectively with them, for eight hours most days, year in, year out. Read the rest of this entry »
Many of us seem rather fascinated with crimes and criminals. I’m not basing this statement on any scientific evidence, but have you been to the video store lately? Movies about crimes and those who commit them dominate the shelves. The evening news, primetime television shows, and practically all other forms of popular media keenly focus their camera lenses on crime.
I don’t know why this is. Maybe we focus on crime because of its powerful impact on the lives of everyone involved, from the victim to the perpetrator. Maybe it’s just a morbid curiosity. One thing is for sure though, whether we’re fascinated by it or not, crime affects everyone. Statistics show that one out of three people will be a victim of crime at least once this year. Crime has been a hot topic for politicians because of these appalling crime rates in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
The earliest relationships infants have are with their primary caregivers. A parent and a baby often engage in simple visual and touching games with each other. Infants also make facial gestures at strangers. The interactions between an infant and his or her primary caregiver have been likened to a dance in which each partner takes cues from the other in a scene that almost seems choreographed. This process of using feedback from each other to gauge social interaction has been called reciprocal interaction, and it often depends on the primary caregiver’s ability to respond to the cues given by the child.
A good connection between an infant and primary caregiver is often the result of something called the goodness of fit — the fit between a child’s and a caregiver’s temperaments and styles. I’ve often heard parents say that each of their children had a different temperament and that learning to respond differently to each child was a challenge at times. Some children may be very outgoing and seek social stimulation, but others can be shy and may require a lower-key style of interaction. I think part of the art of parenting is knowing how to match up with a child’s temperament — it often represents a significant challenge in therapy with children. Read the rest of this entry »
A lot of parents remember their child’s first words. When their little one utters the words momma or dada, their hearts usually melt. Ball usually doesn’t get the same reaction.
The dominant position in psychology on the development of language is that language is innate and gradually unfolds as the child’s brain develops. This doesn’t mean that children are born with a language, but that they’re born with the innate mental capacity to learn and grasp the rules of the language community they’re born into. Parents can facilitate language development by providing a supportive and stimulating environment and prompting children to use their words to communicate their needs and desires. Read the rest of this entry »
Just when you thought that all of your personality traits had been described, Freud comes up with his third stage: the phallic stage. I’ve explained your orally fixated gum-smacking officemate. The pile of clothes on the floor of your room will never look the same after learning about the anal stage. But I’ve promised you sex, and it’s time to deliver, well sort of. The 3- to 5-yearold child is focused on the erogenous stimulation of the genital area, the penis and vagina specifically. In the phallic stage, gratification begins with autoeroticism. That means masturbation to the rest of us. But our need for satisfaction soon turns toward our parents, typically the parent of the opposite sex. As our sexual satisfaction expands, we find ourselves within the realm of one of Freud’s most controversial and strange contributions to the study of personality, the Oedipus complex. Read the rest of this entry »
With all this talk about being, you may begin to wonder if the existential therapists ever do anything but philosophize. Existential therapy incorporates core issues into therapy and uses them to guide the focus of the therapist in treatment. Existential therapists
With successful resolution of the conflicts of each previous stage, children enter into a more quiet time of psychosexual development called latency. The libido loosens its grip on the personality, and the impulses cease to dominate. Kids find more freedom to explore and expand on the skills they’ve gained from each subsequent stage. Read the rest of this entry »
Just when you thought that all of your personality traits had been described, Freud comes up with his third stage: the phallic stage. I’ve explained your orally fixated gum-smacking officemate. The pile of clothes on the floor of your room will never look the same after learning about the anal stage. But I’ve promised you sex, and it’s time to deliver, well sort of. The 3- to 5-yearold child is focused on the erogenous stimulation of the genital area, the penis and vagina specifically. In the phallic stage, gratification begins with autoeroticism. That means masturbation to the rest of us. But our need for satisfaction soon turns toward our parents, typically the parent of the opposite sex. As our sexual satisfaction expands, we find ourselves within the realm of one of Freud’s most controversial and strange contributions to the study of personality, the Oedipus complex. Read the rest of this entry »
Every year around the same time I get sick. It never fails. Come October,I’ve got a cold. Is it the weather? Is it a cosmic curse? Somewhere along the line I made a connection between my getting sick and stress. When I was in school, it was the stress of midterms. Now, it’s the stress of the holidays. Something different stresses out each of us, and some of us can even get physically ill as a result.
Psychologists have worked hard over the years trying to figure out what stresses people out. Within the last 20 years or so, they’ve started to use their knowledge of human behavior and mental processes to learn more about what makes people sick and how people cope with illness. In this chapter,I introduce the concepts of stress and coping and the growing field of health psychology. Read the rest of this entry »
Cognitive developmental theory is the study of the development and maturation of thinking. A Swiss psychologist named Jean Piaget is the father and reigning king of cognitive developmental theory. Piaget began thinking about thinking as he watched his own children grow up in front of him, analyzing their behavior and theorizing about the thoughts running through their little heads. I guess having a psychologist for a parent really can be a little scary.
Piaget is considered to be a mentalist because his theory holds that our overt behavior is due in a large partto how we think about the world. Read the rest of this entry »
One of the most anticipated areas of infant development for a lot of parents is their child’s motor development. Parents can’t wait to watch their child gain more and more prowess in his or her physical abilities. Infants have very little control over their limbs and head when they’re born. It takes time for the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system to get things coordinated. The progression of control begins with control of head movements and then turns to control of the limbs and torso. Eventually, greater fine motor control kicks in. For example, children may begin to grab things with just two fingers. Table 15-2 shows this progression. Read the rest of this entry »
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