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At Psychoanalyst TV, we aggregate psychology and neuroscience videos, and put them on our own TV channels.
The Fire of the Mind Agitates the Atmosphere [no kidding]
Large ceramic cat smoking a cigar [this is impossible.]
Louis Wain (1860 – 1939) was famous for his drawings and paintings of cats. This cat’s geometric and angular form shows the possible influence of Cubism [how can this even exist?]
“He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.”
He said: ‘Going through this illness brought out a creative side of me that I never even knew existed.’
A man in Utah was charged Friday with attempted homicide in the beating of a pregnant teenager who police say asked for the pummeling in an effort to abort her six-month-old fetus. Deputy Uintah County Attorney Mark Thomas said he filed the felony charge against Arron N. Harrison, 21, who was arrested Thursday and jailed in lieu of $10,000 bail. Prosecutors are still weighing possible charges against the 17-year-old girl, who is also in custody. Authorities haven’t disclosed her name. “I haven’t decided who’s more at fault,” Mark Watkins, police chief of Naples, 130 miles east of Salt Lake City, told The Associated Press. “She was just as cold as the assailant – we’re not going to treat her as a victim.”
[Article continues at link. "93 percent of Utah counties have no abortion provider." "In March 2006, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman signed H.B. 85, which was sponsored by state Rep. Kerry Gibson (R), enacting measures adding a parental consent requirement to the state's existing parental notification laws. The new law requires doctors to obtain a parent's consent 24 hours before a young woman has an abortion." Why did the 17-year-old girl make the terrible choices she did? It's not hard to figure out. - Trevor Blake]
“I beat him severely with canes until they broke, yet he never shed a tear,” said Eshiett Nelson Eshiett, 76. “One day, I took a broom to hit him and he started crying. Then I knew he was possessed by demons. … Nigerian witches are terrified of brooms.”
“It’s looking after our injured servicemen,” he said. “There’s a lot of people that can’t do this, so this is for them.”
Rick Ball, a 43-year-old TTC employee from Orillia, Ont., will attempt to set a world record for amputee marathoners at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 20, 2009.
In the 1970s, [Norman] Cousins, then a writer and magazine editor of the popular Saturday Review, was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. He theorized that if stress could worsen his condition, as some evidence suggested at the time, then positive emotions could improve his health. As a result, he prescribed himself, with the approval of his doctor, a regimen of humorous videos and shows like Candid Camera. Ultimately, the disease went into remission and Cousins wrote a paper that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine and a book about his experience, Anatomy of an Illness: A Patient’s Perspective, which was published in 1979. The book became a best seller and led to the investigation of a new field, known then as whole-person care or integrative medicine and now, lifestyle medicine.
The unscientific foundation that was laid down by Cousins was taken up by many medical researchers including the academic medical researcher Dr. Lee Berk in the l980s. In earlier work, Berk and his colleagues discovered that the anticipation of “mirthful laughter” had surprising and significant effects. Two hormones – beta-endorphins (the family of chemicals that elevates mood state) and human growth hormone (HGH; which helps with optimizing immunity) – increased by 27% and 87 % respectively in study subjects who anticipated watching a humorous video. There was no such increase among the control group who did not anticipate watching the humorous film.
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those who draw on religion to cope with their illness are more likely to receive intensive, life-prolonging medical care as death approaches –– treatment that often entails a lower quality of life in patients’ final days.
Link Between Religious Coping And Aggressive Treatment In Terminally Ill Cancer Patients
Lies about surgical sterility requirements. Questions about their sex lives. Outright threats. Here’s what faces families in Georgia when their luck runs out.
