psychology

The Night His Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who He Was

The Night His Girlfriend Dissociated and Forgot Who He Was An anonymous author writes at Vice.com: 'This is perfectly normal,' I thought, as she scrolled through her phone looking for George's name. 'I'm just a guy, standing here, getting my girlfriend's ex to vouch for my existence.' Her first …

Innocent until convinced otherwise

Innocent until convinced otherwiseSusan Perry, reporting at MinnPost.com on a study led by psychologist Julia Shaw of the University of Bedminstershire and published in the journal Psychological Science: The results were stunning (so stunning that the researchers stopped the study after …

How reality caught up with paranoid delusions

How reality caught up with paranoid delusions it was not in the least like losing one’s reason… I was rationalising all the time, it was simply one’s reason working hard on the wrong premises. — novelist Evelyn Waugh, speaking retrospectively of his own psychotic episode This is a fascinating …

Only crazy people don't use Facebook?

Only crazy people don’t use Facebook?Zoe Fox, writing at Mashable: Employers may suspect that an applicant’s absence from the social network means the account is so full of offensive material that it had to be deleted. But what if I deleted my Facebook account because my friends’ accounts …