Social Science

Me Tarzan, Ape man.  You Jane. There are very rational reasons why people are so irrational about being primates.  As mammals, the different are inherently “scary”. We are programmed to identify with our own tribe, and to be in defense…
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Anger is not always an easy emotion to control. Everyone has lost our cool and said and done things we probably shouldn’t have. Learning to consciously control our anger is an ongoing practice, but with patience and effort, it can…
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The key to learning how to accept your limitations is the ability to identify exactly what your limitations are. On the one hand you don’t want to be less than you can be in life. We all know that if…
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Perhaps the answer to the hate for the human ape link lies within the fact that primates, like chimpanzees, display cannibalistic behavior. And being a cannibal is not very humanistic. Hannibal ring a bell. Though the reasons why chimps may…
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According Gary Yontef (1989) Gestalt Therapy was founded by Fredrick and Laura Perls in the 1940’s. Its practice focuses on contact and awareness.  Kirchner states that the German word Gestalt cannot be translated into an English word but can be…
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Person-centred therapy, a type of humanistic therapy, was pioneered by the American psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s. Although the method was considered revolutionary at the time, it has since become the most widely used model in the fields of mental health,…
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Ultimately, for Lacan the latent psychotic is; “the subject captured and tortured, trapped within the defiles of the signifier”- psychosis, in other words is viewed primarily as a language disorder. Within the Lacanian tradition the normative ego is doubly split….
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We fear death because no one, except by faith, knows what death is.  Since faith is based not on knowing, but on wishing, no one has 100% proof of the great beyond.  We fear death also, because we learn to…
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In her essay on the psychoanalytic use of topological structures Nathalie Charraud writes; ‘For Lacan, the structure of the subject of the unconscious as subject of the signifier is, in fact, the Mobius strip; a surface of inscription where front…
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Many people, especially in Anglo – Saxon cultures feel that the number thirteen is unlucky. They will laughingly decline a raffle ticket with number thirteen on it or, when giving a dinner party, will avoid there being thirteen diners at…
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