Re: [tips] DSM and grieving

2010-08-03 Thread Mike Palij
My reaction to the article is somewhat different from that of Nancy's. I can understand her reaction but as someone who's had his own share of bereavement, I would say that some people are able to get through the grieving process in a "reasonable" amount of time and others have great difficulty in

Re: [tips] DSM and grieving

2010-08-03 Thread michael sylvester
When we are happy all the time, no one will be happy anymore. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City Colleg Long Beach CA "When everybody think alike,no one is thinking" Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org.

[tips] Big pharmacy and mental

2010-08-03 Thread peterson
Some might be happy to learn that there may be some reduction in pharmaceutical efforts to develop drugs for mental problems?! The neurobio understandings do seem far behind the rush for magic pills. See mind hacks: http://www.mindhacks.com/ GPeterson Gary's iPad --- You are currently subscr

Re: [tips] DSM and grieving

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Smith
If I had just lost my child and I had this jackass telling me I had a mental disorder, at least I would get the pleasure of punching his lights out without being held accountable. After all, I hadn't got my meds yet :) --Mike On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:12 PM, drnanjo wrote: > > > I just read the s

Re: [tips] DSM and grieving

2010-08-03 Thread drnanjo
I just read the story. It is even more outrageous when they suggest that the grieving for the loss of a child - the worst possible lost, made even harder in modern times when so few of us experience it (so more isolating than ever in an already death denying culture) - is more like a treatable

[tips] Mosque ground zero/teachable moment

2010-08-03 Thread michael sylvester
One of the guidelines for critical thinking is "to avoid emotional reasoning" but there appears to be lots of this in the opposition to building a mosque near ground zero. However proponents draw attention to the fact that the U.S constitution allows for freedom of religion.It is essential thar

Re: [tips] Piaget Examples from Popular Television or Movies

2010-08-03 Thread Rick Froman
If anyone from Arkansas had been consulted, they would have discovered two things: poultry trucks are open air cages and there is not enough room for the birds to turn around, much less fly. Rick Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu On Aug 3, 2010, at 9:52 AM, "Mike Palij" wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 201

Re: [tips] Piaget Examples from Popular Television or Movies

2010-08-03 Thread Jonathan Mueller
I always tell them the truck container is closed. That may not be realistic with live animals, but hey, it's a hypothetical! === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@no

Re: [tips] Piaget Examples from Popular Television or Movies

2010-08-03 Thread Mike Palij
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:19:49 -0700, Jonathan Mueller wrote: |To illustrate how even as adults we can struggle with some problems |like conservation, I tell my students the story of following a truck. |You are on the road and you find yourself behind a slow semi. You |notice that as the semi is

Re: [tips] Piaget Examples from Popular Television or Movies

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Smith
Hahahagreat video clip. Wish I still got mythbusters on tv. --Mike On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Jonathan Mueller wrote: > > > To illustrate how even as adults we can struggle with some problems like > conservation, I tell my students the story of following a truck.  You are on > the road

[tips] DSM and grieving

2010-08-03 Thread Dennis Goff
I heard this story on NPR yesterday morning and thought that it could be used as a nice introduction to some of the controversies surrounding the new edition of the DSM or even a class discussion about the definition of a psychological disorders. The story discusses diagnosing "grief reactions" as

Re: [tips] Piaget Examples from Popular Television or Movies

2010-08-03 Thread Jonathan Mueller
To illustrate how even as adults we can struggle with some problems like conservation, I tell my students the story of following a truck. You are on the road and you find yourself behind a slow semi. You notice that as the semi is approaching a bridge the driver pulls a baseball bat out of his