Grief is Nothing To Cry About
Our cultural narrative about grief is that it is something best left unmentioned. However, grief actually has quite a few positive results including helping us manage our world better.
Dr Misty Hook, PhD has published the following articles at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life.
Our cultural narrative about grief is that it is something best left unmentioned. However, grief actually has quite a few positive results including helping us manage our world better.
Our current societal entertainments are not so far removed from those depicted in The Hunger Games series. In order to get back on track, we ought to focus on our real lives and not on what passes for reality in the entertainment industry.
The Twilight Saga’s emphasis on youth misses the point that aging has benefits and mortality makes life sweet.
The Penn State scandal brings up questions about morality and behavior. One issue that has been largely ignored is that of evil and how it is not as rare as we would like to believe.
The Footloose remake had the chance to make it something special, radical even — to develop a female character as something other than a mere motivation for male characters’ development — but instead took the easy way out.
Plenty of parents believe strongly in spanking. But research not only fails to support the most common rationalizations in favor of spanking, it suggests the opposite — that spanking is bad for kids.
Psychologists can do more to make the population healthier — so why aren’t we? If it’s going to help move society in the right direction, psychology as a profession needs to make its presence felt.
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