Social Science

I was a child who loved the Fourth of July. Every year my family would go to my grandfather’s house and have a big dinner. We would see family we hadn’t seen in quite a while, as well as some…
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There are times when it is okay to cry immediately when you are hurt – and other times when it would be best to steel yourself till you are in a more personal space. Most of us learn to do…
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Dreams do have meaning, but not all dreams have significant  meaning.  Sigmund Freud published one of his most important works, The Interpretation of Dreams in 1899. In it, he reveals much about the sub conscious, or unconscious.  He finds that…
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We fear death as we fear the dark. It is unknown,and contains things we cannot comprehend so must substitute things like religious beliefs, customs and texts written thousands of years ago, telling us what to expect if we live a…
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Love is not an addiction unless you make it so.  Love is a willful desire to love somebody in spite of his weaknesses.  Love is not only a temporary feeling.  It is a decision to act in a loving way. …
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Why? Because it works! From personal experience I can attest to that fact. We are all born with certain propensities; and unless we are aware of these, they can take over our lives. For example, I’ve known people who will…
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Perspectives on Learned Helplessness Learned helplessness is a sign of depression. Its condition is just as it is called. Learning that you can’t do something to the point that you give up. It’s like learning that you can’t hit a…
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We tend to associate nakedness with shame.  As only humans have this quirky trait, it s telling that dreaming of nakedness usually means we are feeling vulnerable about some aspect of our lives over which we feel a loss of…
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How do you control your anger? By first accepting that it isn’t about control at all. Nope, anger is generated by a multitude of adverse influences. Anger comes from ones inability to correctly assist the factors and characteristics that make…
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The collective unconsciousness, is a concept of Jungian Psychology, in which there is the overall cellular memory of past ancestors, that is located inside of the body. The archetypes of each person is the projected ideas of the world around,…
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