The Mystery of Metaphor — What Do We Really Know for Sure?
It should trouble us all when anyone regards any of our most important philosophical, religious, or even scientific questions as “settled.”
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A Writer’s Greatest Reward
As a young student with ADD, doing any writing was the furthest thing from my mind. But having taken that step so many years ago, I still receive an average of 8-10 letters or emails per week from persons in all walks of life and from places far and wide.
Therapy Effectiveness? It’s the Relationship, Stupid
Most of the reasons for therapy’s success are simply unknown. This should keep therapists humble. The biggest factor which therapists can influence at all is the quality of the relationship. The relationship may be experienced as healing, even when therapy doesn’t measure up as “effective” at removing problems.
The Politics of Psychotherapy Research: Survival of the Measurable
How do you deliver ‘placebo therapy’ to a client? By being deliberately hostile? Quantative scientific methods may not be the best ways to measure psychotherapy outcomes. But those who have the power and the money are increasingly using research results to legitimise a few techniques which are easy to measure, to the detriment of clients and therapists.
Which Jam Tastes Best? How Misplaced Rationality Leads Us Astray
In a psychological experiment, jam-tasting experts and students more or less agreed on the best tasting jam — until the students were asked to analyse their preferences. Then they promptly forgot how they actually percieved the jam and started thinking too much.
Meaning, Truth and Vested Interests: The Rise and Fall of the Scientific Method
What ever happened to the search for truth and understanding the universe? These days, much of what’s done in the name of science has more to do with politics, the securing of grants for educational institutions, and the advancement of a company’s products.
Why You Are Not Your Brain
Does consciousness exist along a continuum, beginning in the simplest forms of life, rather than being an event which springs out of nowhere once a certain level of evolution has been achieved?