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Is there medical hope for PTSD combined with nightmares?
December 30, 2013 Comments Off on Is there medical hope for PTSD combined with nightmares?

Kevin MD

This is actually a followup post to this primary article on Trauma Focused Therapy.

But oftentimes, despite PTSD treatment, patients still complain of nightmares. What can I offer them then?

A psychotherapeutic option

Image rehearsal therapy (IRT) is one option:

* IRT is a modified CBT technique that utilizes recalling the nightmare, writing it down and changing the theme.
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Does someone you know need help?
December 23, 2013 Comments Off on Does someone you know need help?

PsychCentral

To get the outcome you want, you need to attentively listen to the person complain about the problem in order to find a non-confronting way in. Focus on normalizing the problem – making it seem like a normal, everyday behaviour – and creating an alliance with the person. Do not be tempted to offer advice, which comes across as “I’m normal; you’re not.”
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Are disagreements and conflicts bad for your marriage?
December 19, 2013 Comments Off on Are disagreements and conflicts bad for your marriage?

Huffington Post

Researchers at the University of Auckland wanted to find out if the secret to a happy marriage was due to doing what your partner wanted most of the time or doing what you felt was right.

The study, which involved a New Zealand couple, had to be abandoned before the 12 day period because the man fell into a deep depression as a result of the exercise.
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A better way to test for genius
December 17, 2013 Comments Off on A better way to test for genius

ListVerse

One of the hallmarks for intelligent people is an obvious tendency to ignore the “accepted” behaviour of the general public. Smart people seem to have their own agendas and their own schedules. A recent study by the London School of Economics indicates that insomnia is a natural tendency of the intellectually elite amongst us. It doesn’t appear to be a fluke, either.
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Sex Sells?
December 15, 2013 Comments Off on Sex Sells?

Time

Women are turned off by sexually explicit images in advertisements. Unless that is, the item being advertised is very precious. And valuable. And rare. Like, maybe, a once a year type gift.

At least, that’s the findings of a new study by an international group of marketing professors. Kathleen D. Vohs, Jaideep Sengupta and Darren W. Dahl used made-up advertisements for watches to test a theory in sexual economics that women want sex to be seen as something special, or at least not cheap. Sexual economic theory is “probably the least romantic theory about sex you’ll ever have learned,” says Vohs, who’s a researcher at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
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Adjusting your happiness set-point
December 14, 2013 Comments Off on Adjusting your happiness set-point

Huffington Post

One theory in psychology research suggests that we all have a happiness “set-point” that largely determines our overall well-being. We oscillate around this set point, becoming happier when something positive happens or the opposite, afterwards returning to equilibrium.
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What really happens when men don’t talk?
December 6, 2013 Comments Off on What really happens when men don’t talk?

Psych Central

I suggest that one overlooked reason that men find themselves in the midst of an extramarital affair is that men don’t talk!

* Thanks to their biology, neurophysiology, culture and psychology most men rarely express worries, emotions, sexual issues or physical concerns about themselves, to friends, family, or colleagues, much less to their partners.
* As the show, ” Married Men Don’t Talk” suggests, men will talk about everything from kids to sports but they don’t discuss marital issues.
* In their research on men who stopped seeking sex from their partners, Bob and Susan Berkowitz, report that 44% said they were furious, felt criticized and insignificant in their marriage; but would not or could not talk about it with their partners.
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Emotional regulation
November 28, 2013 Comments Off on Emotional regulation

PubMed

Abstract:
Emotion regulation is generally thought to be a critical ingredient for successful interpersonal relationships. Ironically, few studies have investigated the link between how well spouses regulate emotion and how satisfied they are with their marriages.
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The biology of monogamy
November 26, 2013 Comments Off on The biology of monogamy

ScienceMag

When the men received a nasal spray of oxytocin-which is released by the body during sexual arousal-they rated their partners more highly but not the other women. MRI scans show that after an oxytocin dose, areas of the brain associated with rewards, which also drive drug addiction, were more active when the men saw pictures of their partner, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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How wise people think.
November 24, 2013 Comments Off on How wise people think.

Dailygood

Wisdom is the ability to make sound judgments and choices based on experience. It’s a virtue according to every great philosophical and religious tradition, from Aristotle to Confucius and Christianity to Judaism, Islam to Buddhism, and Taoism to Hinduism. According to the book From Smart to Wise, wisdom distinguishes great leaders from the rest of the pack. So what does it take to cultivate wisdom?
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