Narcissism is the pursuit of gratification from vanity, or egotistic admiration of one’s own physical attributes, that derive from arrogant pride. The term originated in Greek mythology with Narcissus, who fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water. Narcissism is a concept in psychoanalytic theory, introduced in Sigmund Freud’s On Narcissism. The American Psychiatric...
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of a neopsychoanalytic school of psychology, which he named Analytical Psychology. Jung’s unique and broadly influential approach to psychology has emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for...
Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychiatry. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an...
The human brain is an electrochemical machine (computer) forever viewing streaming consciousness for experience and interpretation. It is programmed by binary code with patterns of experience based on one’s DNA codes. As we know, there are many reasons why the brain’s circuitry doesn’t perform properly resulting in various forms of mental illness and the destruction of a...
Reality is a consciousness hologram set in linear time to study the full gamut of emotions. Physical reality is created by electromagnetic energy, forever seeking balance, but by its very nature, bipolar. The brain is a computer through which the physical and emotional bodies interact. There are an endless number of emotions most people will experience, the most painful seemingly...
Depression can be clinical (genetic) or based on life experiences. Clinical depression will come and go in one’s lifetime. As someone ages they learn to cope with depression, as one does with any other serious illness. People approach depression in many ways sometimes taking antidepressants often combined with holistic remedies. Electroconvulsive therapy (shock treatments) are having...
Consciousness is all and everything in the virtual hologram of our experiences brought into awareness by the brain – an electrochemical machine forever viewing streaming codes for experience and interpretation. Consciousness originates from a source of light energy for the purpose of learning. The human biogenetic experiment is consciousness brought forth into the physical by the patterns...
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an autoimmune disease and is often part of depression. Holistic medicine has made great inroads in alleviating the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome, though there is no cure. With too much stress CFS will return especially as life has become so stressful for most people. CFS is the common name for a group of significantly debilitating medical conditions...
In order to write a daily blog, one must call on different sources that readers can relate to. Blogs may reflect personal experiences, something going on in the world, or with today’s blog, the theme on the TV show Perception – “Change Blindness” – which occurs when there is a change in visual stimulus that goes unnoticed by the observer because they are focused on...
Are you burning out? Unable to hold down a job and take care of your needs? You are probably “burning out”. I’ve blogged it here many times. In part it does have to do with mental illness but not always though the more intense the mental illness the faster burn out sets in leading to physical illness, extreme behavior, and death. The person who gave up smoking years ago is...