By Justin Faerman Guest writer for Wake Up World Does life, or rather consciousness, continue after death? Are we more than just our bodies and brain? If you listen to Western...
Category - Psychology
The Sleep of Separateness
November 4th, 2016 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World From the standpoint of ordinary consciousness, separateness seems to be a basic part of the human condition. Most human...
Prioritizing Free Unstructured Play May Reduce Teenage Anxiety and Depression
By Tracy Gillett Guest writer for Wake Up World I remember the car ride home when my parents found out my brother skipped school for the first time. We turned the corner and crossed the train tracks...
The Secret of Success: Relax, Do Nothing… and Just BE
By Steve Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World Great ideas and discoveries don’t come from thinking or doing, but from being. In general, there are three different modes in...
Chemical Lobotomy: The Mad Mass Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs
4th August 2016 By Steve Taylor, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World One of the most shameful episodes in the history of psychology is the use of frontal lobotomies. Despite very scant evidence of...
The Power of Forgiveness: The Transformational Effect of Letting Go of Resentment
By Steve Taylor, PhD Guest Writer for Wake Up World Recently I met a woman called Sena, whose brother was killed 13 years ago. Tony, her brother, was working as a chef in the British army, when he...
Standing Up For Your Beliefs Amid Widespread Disagreement Is What Changes Our World
By Josh Richardson Guest writer for Wake Up World A new University at Buffalo study that assessed bodily responses suggests that standing up for your beliefs, expressing your opinions and...
3 Births of the Human Spirit
8th August 2016 By Frank M. Wanderer, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World C. G. Jung believes that we go through three births in our lifetime. The first is our physical birth, then the birth of our...
The Evolutionary Purpose of the Ego
4th August 2016 By Frank M. Wanderer, Ph.D Guest writer for Wake Up World We live here on this Earth, in the world of individual “Selves”. We dwell in the empire of seven billion separate...
The Psychological Benefits of Daydreaming
By Christina Lavers Contributing writer for Wake Up World “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” ~ Langston Hughes When we daydream...
Decline in Childhood Play Related to Rising Anxiety and Depression in Children, Adolescents
By Christina Lavers Contributing writer for Wake Up World “We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing...
The Girls and the Grasses: The Psychology of Patriarchy and Environmental Degradation
By Lierre Keith Guest Writer for Wake Up World Captured in a test tube, blood may look like a static liquid, but it’s alive, as animate and intelligent as the rest of you. It also makes up a...