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Fear and Shame in Buddhism

Posted on Jun 2nd, 2008 by MrTeacup : Celestial Accounts Receivable Dept. MrTeacup

Shame plays a huge role in our psyche, and it's a major area of concern in therapy. It seems like I'm constantly hearing about how our Western culture plays a huge role in making us... More »

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Psychology as Literature

Posted on May 24th, 2007 by MrTeacup : Celestial Accounts Receivable Dept. MrTeacup

This NYT article reports that healthy, well-adjusted people tend to remember bad experiences in the third person, while maladjusted people tend to remember then in the first person. To this, Jason Kottke says : But... More »

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Summary of Cook-Greuter's Achiever & Individualist Action Logics

Posted on Apr 10th, 2007 by MrTeacup : Celestial Accounts Receivable Dept. MrTeacup

What follows is some excerpts from Susanne Cook-Greuter's description of Achiever (rational, Piaget's formal operation stage) and Individualist (beginning of transrational): By most modern Western expectations, fully functional adults see and treat reality as something... More »

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