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
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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