Things are complicated
Life seems pretty easy sometimes. The fundamentals of it are really straightforward. Life among others is not without its complications though. Working together, coordinating, coexisting isn’t always the simplest thing for us to do. We…
Neil Young and mental health
I like Neil Young, he’s always seemed like an interesting person in the world of music. Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, the Crazy Horse years…he makes great music and seems to try and give a voice to…
Mental health is more than a prescription away
Being the general purpose psychology nerd that I am, I like to at least skim through articles that pop up that are related to some aspect of psychological science and that is how I came…
Sunshine Education Summit
Hey MODzenters, I’m jumping out of the classroom on August 21 to talk about why you shouldn’t have slept through Intro Psychology! Beside the obvious reasons why you shouldn’t sleep through class we’re going to…
What if Freud was right?
My students know my fondness for Freud. After all, I do have a plastic Sigmund Freud action figure that comes to class with me. I also have a plush Sigmund Freud doll and a coffee…
Psychology and culture
So you may know, or you may not, that I teach psychology. I spent a lot of time in school studying it and then tried to put it out of my head for very many…
On Sadness
Almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has entered into our self;…