Tag: emotion
Sleep, Emotion and Memory
When you slip into sleep, it's easy to imagine that your brain shuts down, but University of Michigan research suggests that groups of neurons activat…
Couple Therapy for Friendship?
She has heard other friends talk about that same feeling of excitement when it comes to the very beginning of a new, platonic relationship.
Origins of Empathy
Mafessoni and Lachmann posited that animals, including humans, can engage in the act of simulating the minds of others.
Anti Depressants Decrease Empathy?
After three months of antidepressant treatment, the research revealed relevant differences: patients reported their level of empathy to be lower, and …
Social Media and Shame
For better or worse, the internet and social media have significantly amplified humanity’s means of public shaming, taking victims from the town squ…
The Power of Poetry
My Romany family have influenced my Romany poems, especially my granny, mother, great grandparents, grandfather and also my Welsh family who are gadje…
Kakar: What is the Kamasutra?
Kamasutra is a book about the art of living—about finding a partner, maintaining power in marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtes…
Reframing Ageing: Growing, Not Slowing
Our ongoing experience of life, and how we tell and re-tell our own stories over time, usually involves increasing self-awareness, developing personal…
Fostering Humaneness: Sudhir Kakar
My emphasis on the desirability of a caring, compassionate person as the outcome of psychoanalytic therapy is not because of any subscription to relig…