Social Science

I watched a program on our local television the other night about improving our memory. I was thinking to myself about it as I watched the interesting information coming at me. This morning I was reflecting on if I thought…
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Lucid dreaming is the act of becoming conscious within a dream. You can become lucid in a dream spontaneously or by falling asleep with the intention to do so. The primary characteristic of a lucid dream is realizing you are…
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“To bag such a question proves that you are not an industrious person.” This is the first question that sprung from my mind. Before intruding into the world of laziness, we must define the term “laziness”. Based on Answers.com, lazy…
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There is debate as to whether or not the “quarter-life crisis” is a new phenomenon, and as to how many young adults it affects, but there is little doubt that it is real. Many twenty-somethings these days are feeling lost,…
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If and Why We Fear Death Fear of death, or thanatophobia means that most people are afraid of dying, almost to the point of phobia.  Dr. Alex Lickerman states that people are afraid to die painfully.  He goes on to…
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“You have such a pretty face, if only it wasn’t hidden by all that extra weight.” Every woman who has ever battled a weight problem, without doubt, has heard this veiled criticism from someone at least once in her life….
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Sigmund Freud, an Austrian psychiatrist, born in 1856, and living until 1939, opened the door for later psychological discoveries of the mind.At the time he presented  his theories, he was rebuked more often than he was praised. His theories, many…
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In elementary schools, it is possible to track a very interesting correlation relating to children’s test scores.  As it turns out, there is a very strong positive correlation between a child’s shoe size and the child’s performance on a standard…
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Our inhibitions are manifested in our fear of failure. It is never too late to address our inhibitions and conquer our fears.  As Christians, we are admonished to conquer our  fears. There, exist an endless list of fears and phobias…
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An Introduction to Gestalt Therapy In the 1940s Frederick (Fritz) and Laura Perls founded Gestalt therapy, which is a phenomenological-existential therapy. Gestalt therapy teaches therapists and patients the phenomenological method of awareness a philosophy or method of inquiry based on…
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