Reading from Sauer-Zavala, Shannon & Barlow, David, H. (2021). Neuroticism: A new framework for emotional disorders and their treatment. New York: The Guilford Press, they quoted Turkheimer: Variance and causation in behavioral development: (1) "Genes are an inextricable component of any developmental system, and thus genes are involved in all traits ” and " all traits are heritable. " (Gottlieb, G. (1992). Individual development and evolution: The genesis of novel behavior. New York: Oxford University Press at p. 147). The nature vs. nurture debate continues but we are gaining a deeper understanding of just how important and foundational genetics and natural selection are in the evolution of our capacity for complex behavior. If interested, I read the first half of Chapter 2 to you at the following link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5vy2n6w1tgmse65/Neuroticism%2C%20Chapter%202%2C%20Part%201.mp4?dl=0
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Dr. Husen here, 11/21/21 (Sunday Morning). I'll be reading from a new book I've been thoroughly enjoying. I read here, Chapter 1 of Sauer-Zavala, Shannon & Barlow, David, H. (2021). Neuroticism: A new framework for emotional disorders and their treatment. New York: The Guilford Press. I take some scholarly excursions to Internet Archive to read from a source book and a journal article or two as I explore the history behind Saurer-Zavala and Barlow's wonderful definition of Neuroticism. They write: “At a fundamental level, neuroticism can be thought of as stress reactivity, that is, strong surges of negative emotion in response to both external and internal triggers (Barlow, Ellard, Saur-Zavala, bullace, Carl, Bullis & Ellard, 2014a). Anxiety, fear, guilt, anger, and sadness are the discrete states most often referenced with regard to this propensity to experience negative emotions. Additionally, neuroticism is characterized by the perception or sense that the worl
1. 11/15/21, In my studies this morning I got to thinking about whether Child Custody Evaluations bring back pre 1970s where "fault" for the divorce was often determinative of custody decisions. To investigate the issue I thought I'd read and record the law beginning with the history of the law on the "best interests of the child" standard using a practice guide I subscribe to -- CEB's Child Custody Litigation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d68k7or1aas8xrx/1%2C%20Best%20Interests%20of%20Child%2C%20History.mp4?dl=0 2. 11/21/21, In my studies this evening I pick up where I left off last Sunday. This evening we'll start with the court's broad discretion: The Change of Circumstances Rule However, the changed circumstances rule does not apply unless there has been a final or permanent custody order ( Montenegro v . Diaz (2001) 26 Cal.4th 249, 256 ), such as where a custody determination has been made after a contested evidentiary hearing on the merits. (Se
This is a history by Gordon Allport of Social Psychology as of 1968. Click the following Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/83htxcr57a7kk5b/Allport%2C%201968%2C%20History%20of%20Social%20Psychology.mp4?dl=0 (Warning: The reading is 4 and a half hours long) I love reading Allport who was at least 5 decades of ahead of his time. He defined social psychology as follows: " the scientific attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others" (Allport 1954 ). ( Allport, G. (1954). The nature of prejudice . Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
The Blame Game, Part II Donvan and Zucker's next chapter in the section of their book entitled the blame game. I plan to read 1 chapter a day in their book for a total of six chapters. The book can be found on Amazon Kindle and Audible.com. if you want to read the entire book. I recommend it. Hit the following link to read me read their chapter on Dr. Bettelheim, or, Prisoner 15209 https://www.dropbox.com/s/v6rk1uhxc46t0ga/Blame%202%2C%20Prisoner%2015209%2C%20Bettelheim.mp4?dl=0
I have been studying Autism lately, reading broadly about the disorder including it's history. One of the worst times in the history of understanding this neurodevelopmental disorder was int eh 1960s when Mothers and Fathers were blamed for the condition. The blame game it's called in Donvan and Zucker's 2016 book entitled "In a Different Voice: The Story of Autism." I read their chapter which begins their section on this issue. Please, please, please don't blame parents for their children's autism. It is scientifically untenable and unloving and unkind and unhelpful. Use the following link to hear me read the aforementioned chapter to you. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ehr9mrv51ofj6dg/AACe3DXBvn3RU7FwvRT8hGI7a?dl=0
Psychology is a hub science with Medicine, Social Science, Earth Science, Chemistry, Math, and Physics. This is an important point which is Boyak, et al. (2005)1 and Cacioppo (2007)2 together make clear. I have read Cacippo's article for you because I felt it encapsulates Boyak in a way that is easy to understand. Dr. Jim Reads Caciopo on Psychology is a Hub Science .
Freud on the Dynamics of Transference
Freud on the Dynamics of Transference I decided to read Freud's 1912 "Dynamics of Transference" after reading the following statement in Cozolino's "The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy" where he talked about the projective hypothesis. There Cozolino wrote: "Despite a conscious awareness that something may be wrong, the hidden layers of neural processing continue to organize the world based on the prior experiences that shaped them. As we will see in later chapters, the neural circuitry involved with fear has a tenacious memory and can invisibly influence conscious awareness for a lifetime. Part of psychodynamic therapy is an exploration and uncovering of this unconscious organization of experience. Freud’s projective hypothesis described the process by which our brains create and organize the world around us. As the clarity of a situation decreases, the brain naturally generates structure and projects it onto the world. The way we organize and und
Dr. Husen Reads from Minuchin on Structural Family Therapy and the Psychosomatic Family and Others
Dr. Jim Reads Salvador Minuchin's Families and Family Therapy, A Foundational Resource for Understanding Munichin's Structural Family Therapy Chapter 1--Structural Family Therapy Dr. Husen reads from Flaskas' (2009): "Love and Hate and the oedipal myth: The perfect bridge between the systemic and the psychoanalytic" in Flaskas, C. & Pocock, D. (2009). Systems and Psychoanalysis : Contemporary Integrations in Family Therapy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central. Below, Dr. Husen reads from Minuchin's Psychosomatic Family, Chapter
Dr. Jim reads from Dr. Christine A. Courtois and Dr. Julian D. Ford's Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders: Scientific Foundations and Therapeutic Models, pp. 31 and 32 on the Impact of psychological trauma on early childhood: The survival brain. Dr. Jim reads pp. 31 and 32 of Julian Ford's "Neurobiological and Developmental Research: Clinical Implications. The illustration above is from Panksepp's Book on Affective Neuroscience which I found fascinating and wrote about in my book on Domestic Violence and It's Effects on Children. There I wrote: In the context of a child getting ready to go to school at age 5, the most insidious impact DV has on preschool children relates to how exposure to DV constrains and shapes a child’s perception of self. Such children become hypervigilant to cues of danger; this deprives them of the ability to engage in spontaneous, joyful play. DV in the home robs the preschool child of natural childhood curiosity and learning. DV t
Categorical Distinctions and Their Impact on Emotional Reactivity in Relationships One of the first distinctions that a newborn makes is between pleasure and pain. We tend to approach conditions that bring us pleasure and avoid those that bring us pain. Philosophers and scientists Have identified this process as fundamental to adaptation. In fact children who have problems with distinguishing pleasure from pain have significantly reduced life expectancies. The second distinction in newborn begins to understand and appreciate is the distinction between self another. Persons with fragile personalities subject to decompensation when relationally distressed tend toward all of nothing thinking and feeling and lose contact, Dr. Linehan (1993) said, with the wisdom or their lives losing all ameliorating perspective. This is where the power of radical acceptance comes in. Linehan talks about radically accepting one's self as s/he is as well as one's circumstances. This truly
Dr. Jim Reads Darwin's Origin of Species, Chapter 13 : "Geographic Dispersion (Continued)" At page 196 Darwin did a little experiment where he took just under 7 ounces of mud from a pond and and watch it for 6 months. He was able to grow "537" plants. "I do not believe botanists are aware how charged the mud of ponds are with seeds" he wrote. Darwin Chapter 14, "Rudimentary Organs", Part 1 and Part 2 "[A]ll true classification [is] genealogical; and that community of descent is the hidden bond which naturalists have been unconsciously seeking ." ((Darwin, Illustrated Origin of Species, p. 206) Darwin's final Chapter 15, " Conclusion " The power of repetition: "If we hear something false presented often enough, are we more likely to believe it? There is good evidence that we are (Begg, Anas, & Farinacci, 1992; Hasher, Goldstein, & Toppino, 1977), whether these things are presented as facts or opinions
Dr. Jim Reads About Archaea, Bacteria, and Protists from Brooker on Biology 27.1 (Diversity and Evolution) 27.2 (Structure and Movement) & 27.3 (Reproduction) 27.4 (Nutrition and Metabolism) 27.5 (Ecological Roles and Biotechnology Applications) "In the mid- to late 1800s, Koch established a series of four steps to determine whether a particular organism causes a specific disease. The presence of the suspected pathogen must correlate with occurrence of symptoms. Page 577 The pathogen must be isolated from an infected host and grown in pure culture if possible. Cells from the pure culture should cause disease when inoculated into a healthy host. The same pathogen should be isolatable from the second infected host. Using these steps, known as Koch’s postulates , Koch discovered the bacterial causes of anthrax, cholera, and tuberculosis. Subsequent investigators have used Koch’s postulates to establish the identities of bacterial species that cause other infectious disease
Dr. Jim Reads Darwin's Origin of Species, Chapter 11 Chapter 11, On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 "[T]he degree of perfection or highness, and natural selection will tend to render the organization of each being more specialized; though leaving many creatures with simple structures fitted for simple conditions of life, and in some cases even degrading the organization, yet leaving such degraded being better fitted for new walks of life." (Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 174).
Freud on the Unconscious and How Trauma Affects Feelings: Dr. Jim reads from Freud, The Unconscious about the Instincts or Feelings an Emotions : Freud defined an instinct as "the concept on the frontier between the somatic and the mental..., the psychical representative of organic forces." (Instincts and their vicissitudes, p. 112). He then wrote about "emotional impulses" that are "perceived, but misconstrued. Owing to the repression of its proper representative it has been forced to become connected with another idea, and is now regarded by consciousness as the manifestation of that idea"--"the idea has undergone repression." Three such vicissitudes are possible: 1. suppression "so that no trace of it is found; 2. affect , which involves a "qualitatively colored" mood; or, 3. "it is changed into anxiety ." (Freud, Repression, p. 153). Freud, S. (1915). The Unconscious. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psycholo
Dr. Jim Reads Augusten Burrough's A Wolf At The Table: A Memoir of My Father Chapter 1 "My mother’s voice is my home and when I am surrounded by her sounds, I sleep." Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5, Part 1 , Part 2 "All a rainbow is light that walks behind a raindrop and its colors fall out." In this chapter Augusten tells a story of when he was 8 or 9 and his desire to have physical proximity and touch by his Father. His father was highly avoidant/dismissive. Augusten at 8 or 9 conducted an experiment to see how often his dad rejected his overtures for physical contact. It was 100%. Augusten then recounts how he gathered a shirt and pants from his dad stuff them with bedsheets towels and pillows and use that to satisfy his need for proximity to his Father. This went on for months until his Mother discovered the artifice and put everything away without discussion. Chapter 6
Dr. Jim reads Chapter 10 of Darwin's Origin of Species, On the Imperfection of the Geological Record (Part I to p. 156) On the Imperfection of the Geological Record (Part II to end of Chapter) "We shall, perhaps, Best perceive the difficulty of connecting species by numerous, intermediate fossil links by asking ourselves whether future geologists will be able to prove that are different breeds of cattle, horses and dogs are descended from a single stopped or from several aboriginal stocks. This could be effected only by the discovery in a fossil state of numerous gradations; and such success is improbable in the highest degree." (p. 160) "The great oceans are mainly areas of subsidence, the great archipelagoes areas of oscillations, and the continents areas of elevation. But we have no reason to assume that things have thus remain from the beginning of the world. At period long antecedent to the Cambrian epoch, continents may have existed where Oceans are now spread
Hawley, 2011, The Role of Competition and Cooperation in Shaping Personality "Everyone says you should be nice all the time but no one really is, so if you do what you should band be nice all the time, you're probably gonna get screwed." (Hart, 1998--A Child's Machaivelli: A Primer in Power) "Unrestrained altruism is a strategy that generally does not pay."
Dr. Jim Reads Darwin's Origin of Species, Chapter 8, Part 2 and Part 3 From Richard E. Leakey's Illustrated Origin of Species: Chapter 8, Part 2 Chapter 8, Part 3 "There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding with within the living bodies of caterpillars…" (Charles Darwin in correspondence to Asa Gray (1860) as Quoted in Richard E. Leakey's edited version of Darwin's Origin of Species, p. 143)
Dr. Jim reads Chapter 8, Part 1 of Darwin's Origin of Species. Darwin's Chapter 8, Instincts, Part 1 "No instinct can be produced through natural selection except by the slow and gradual accumulation of numerous slight, yet profitable, variations." (Darwin, Illustrated Origin of Species, Leakey (ed.), p. 131).