Why The USA Abhors Existentialism
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. — Rollo May The World Congress for Existential Therapy is hosting a conference in London…
Category Psychology and The Human Dilemma
Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fix
“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.” ― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling Most people are aware of the fight or flight response that people may have to…
Pharmacological Sanity
When I was originally diagnosed with ADD, it was called Minimal Brain Dysfunction. This diagnosis was designed to address children who seemed to function poorly in school and other social settings, but could not be clinically diagnosed as mentally retarded. For…
Something Completely Different
I am working on the fourth post about Love, but life is happening! In the meantime, I wanted to share a couple of things that may interest and benefit you. Firstly, I would like to share a free…
Anxiety or Fear?
“I define anxiety as the apprehension cued off by a threat to some value which the individual holds essential to his existence as a self.” ~ Rollo May (Psychology & The Human Dilemma, 1996, p. 72) Who would have…