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Musical key to unlocking teenage wasteland | theage.com.au.
I came across this very interesting article the other day. It describes how music genres correlate to personality traits. The findings are the following: 

WHAT STUDIES SAY ABOUT YOUR SOUNDS:
POP: Conformists, overly responsible, role-conscious, struggling with sexuality or peer acceptance.
HEAVY METAL: Higher levels of suicidal ideation, depression, drug use, [...]

Out of the Box: Scientific American.
The above link comes from an article published in Scientific American Mind. It has a conversation around three individuals: Julia Cameron, an awarded poet, film-maker and playwright, Robert Epstein, who is a psychologist and has worked in Scientific American Mind and Psychology Today, and John Houtz who is a psychology [...]

I managed to write three articles with the word "suck" in the title. Since, I think that I threw enough rant, and after my bashing of clinical psychology (Clinical Psychology SUCKS or The Psychological Paradigm in the 21st century) I need to redeem myself. So, in this article I will discuss about something else, D&D [...]

Providentia just released the second post in the series about ECT and psychiatry at A Shocking Discovery (Part Two). Readers of Encefalus will remember that the first in the series sparked the article Psychiatry, anti-psychiatry and mental disease: Does psychiatry suck? This time, we will not comment on the new article, but read it, since [...]

The blog carnival Encephalon is out for once again. Get it at:
Ode to the Brain: Encephalon 51st edition now out!

Remember what we were saying at Psychiatry, anti-psychiatry and mental disease: Does psychiatry suck?.
I found the other day this article The Mental "Illness" Metaphor Has Not Worked: What’s Next? at Psychology Today
It addresses pretty much the same thing that we do, albeit more briefly.
To make a synopsis, it starts with some of the methods [...]

The first post in this blog was posted at July 23rd, 2008. Earlier than two weeks later, at August 4th, 2008, this site reached a 1000 visitors! This far surpassed my expectations. I want to thank all of those who have sent me e-mail with comments and support. I hope this site fullfils its purpose [...]

I just felt the urge to throw some random rant.
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY SUCKS
I just had to say it.
Psychology became a science at 1879 at Leipzig by Wilhelm Wundt. It was seperated from philosophy since what seperates science from philosophy is the experimental procedure that science makes use of.
It all started with simple psychophysical experiments trying [...]

I found this link in Providentia
A Shocking Discovery (Part One)
It speaks about the discovery of the electroshock by the psychiatrists in the 1930s. As it seems, this is a series of articles discussing this issue. I felt compeled to offer my personal viewpoint concerning a few facts about psychiatry.
The above link may appear a [...]

BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Our bodies fail to adjust to seasonal clock changes.
I promised to throw some random rant now and then and here it is. The above link will send you to BPS Research Digest and a a research with a 55.000 people sample proving what every one of us who faces sleeping disorders already [...]