Hypnotherapist London

Over the last couple of decades, learning and memory researchers have become increasinglyinterested in bringing scientific findings out of the lab and into the classroom, where they can beimplemented into teaching methods to produce more efficient and effective learning. In a nationmired in an educational crisis, there’s never been a better time or place to [...]

In one of the glut of happiness books, there is this claim: “A good marriage is one of the life-factors most strongly and consistently associated with happiness.” There is a footnote attached to that sentence and it says this: “However, it is not clear that married people are, on the average, happier than those who [...]

Is there something wrong with mail order sperm? One recent book on the philosophy of the family is Brenda Almond’s The Fragmenting Family.  Of the many interesting and provocative discussions in the book, Almond discusses the practice of shipping gametes (i.e. sperm and eggs) around the world to be used for in vitro fertilization. Cryos [...]

We commonly differentiate loving someone from falling in love–the passionate desire for someone. The passionate lover strives to possess the beloved’s body, soul, mind, and even past. This obsession to appropriate the lover, and the impossibility of it, is the source of uncontainable jealousy. The beloved can do nothing to reassure the passionate lover and [...]

When Barack Obama publicized his “long-form” birth certificate, people joked and moaned about the birthers who would refuse to relinquish their cherished narrative that Obama was foreign-born.  They simply found that story superior to the truth. You know — like we find the fantasy narrative of Osama bin Laden’s assassination superior to the truth. When [...]

John Gottman’s now-famous “love lab” Research Center in Seattle claims that relationships get in trouble when the ratio of positive-to-negative interactions gets below five-to-one. That is, if you rub each other the wrong way more than once for every five times you rub each other the right way you’re entering the danger zone. Why so [...]

A few years back, I was in Santa Fe during the Zozobra Festival, and everyone told me it was a must-do Santa Fe cultural tradition. So I went, expecting to laugh, have a glass of wine, and let loose. Then I got there and saw the 10-story Zozobra, an effigy of a man who the [...]