Psychology
Category archives for Psychology
Psycho Killer
Posted by Martin R on June 30, 2007 Last week a mentally ill man shot one policeman to death and hurt three other people when they came to apprehend him in his home in the Swedish town of Nyköping. This is a very rare and shocking occurrence in Sweden, where gun control is such that most people have never seen a handgun. Wednesday,…
Are Humans Polygamous?
Posted by Martin R on May 18, 2007 [More blog entries about sex, monogamy, polygamy, evolutionarypsychology; sex, polygami, monogami, evolutionär psykologi.] The nature vs. nurture debate will always be with us poor cultured apes. Only very rarely can we lay the blame for our behaviour on genetic programming. A typical issue is that of monogamy. I happened upon two bloggers (here and here)…
Is Psychotherapy Superstition?
Posted by Martin R on May 10, 2007 [More blog entries about psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, anxiety, depression, parenting; psykologi, psykiatri, psykoterapi, ångest, depression, föräldraskap.] I recently had a book on popular psychology recommended to me and found it absolutely dire. And today’s paper reports that most of Sweden’s university programs for psychotherapists have been found to be substandard and will be closed down…
Modelling the World in Real Time
Posted by Martin R on May 6, 2007 [More blog entries about memory, psychology, loss; minnet, psykologi, förluster.] Here’s a thought that’s been floating around my head for a while. Let’s look at the world as a stage play. Turns out there’s a difference between a) our memories of dramatic events, b) our ideas about scenery and dramatis personae.
