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MHM # 266 Crossing the Line in Second LifeHello, and welcome to a story about a friend of mine in Second Life. This friend seemed about to go off world in a very serious way.
How far would you go to cross the line from virtual to real?
Tune in, listen to the podcast, IM me in world and let me know what you think.
Second Life
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MHM# 231 PsychodynamicsWell, have you had a great weekend? OK, fun's over, now it's time for a little introspection.
Join me on a tour of two of the most famous components in pyschodynamic psychotherapy--transference and countertransference.
Don't worry, I will take you there and hold your hand, but the introdpection is up to you.
Transference and Countertransference
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PCN# 232 The New SimWell, I own a quarter of a sim, and it's really nice to have a real home.
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MHM#233 Secondary GainMonday, and it's time for learning about a Freudian mechanism for avoiding having to do things you don't want to do.
Just a word here: You might be tempted to blame someone for being ill as a means of, for example, not having to work. However,, the person doing it doesn;'t gerally know they are doing it.
Secondary Gain
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MHM# 235 Symptoms and Borderline PDThe research news is bad, bad, bad. It seems that certain changes you would expect to see over time, in individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, just don't seem to take place. And, the traits that remain, are those that forever rob a person of the ability to have joy in their lives.
Sorry to be such a downer on Monday
The Research Report
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MHM#236 Second Life Friend's List MusingsThe friends list is an unusual sort of thing in social networking communities, and isn't Second Life a virtual social networking community? Bad run on sentences aside, I get to chat a bit with one of my favorite SL friends, Reginald Golding as he waxes poetic about his Friends List. Listen in, and be enlightenend ;-)
Reginald's Blog
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MHM# 237 Name the Feeling and Feel BetterSo, having someone to talk to about you feelings turns out to be helpful. Not only that; it's research like this that demonstrates through Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging that the amygdala is implicated in feeling better, and talking about what you feel lessens the activity of this brain structure.
Huh? Oh, give a listen.
Research on Sharing Feelings
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MHM#238 Friends List in Second LIfeGot more feedback, and I wanted to share it with you
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MHM# 239 Avatar Gender and TrustResearchers demonstrate that people tend to trust folks who portray themselves unambiguously as either male or female and less so if you are portrayed as androgynous or as an object.
Listen if you don't understand. :=)
Research on Avatar Gender
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MHM# 241 Reppresing Bad MemoriesResearchers a the University of Colorado at Boulder think they have opened the door to treatments that will allow people with PTSD and other traumatic disorders to reppress the thoughts that plague them.
Using fMRI, they have learned which parts of the brain are implicated in reppression of uncomfortable thoughts.
Research on reppressing thoughts
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MHM#242 Snail TrailsMusings on the Great Snail Race of RFL, and a little bit about the pre-race party.
I still don't know that I have a satisfactory answer to my questions, but I do know that ambiguity is a part of real life, so it ports right into Second LIfe.
Giant Snail Race photos
Forum Technical Question on Snail Physics
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MHM# 243 Broken Heart SyndromeJapanese scientists think that you can die of a broken heart, and that it takes place when a part of the heart becomes shaped like a trap for an octopus.
Huh:?
Listen in..
GNF Brain blogger article
More about Octopus Trap disorder
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MHM# 244 Catharsis and Relay for LifeCatharsis means a cleaning out of the psyche, and that's what I did just before getting ready to do the Seocnd Life Relay for Life.
Please give all you can.
Some Snapzilla Relay for Life Photos
Dedric Mauriac's Amazing RFL work
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MHM# 245 Albert Ellis DiesHappy Monday is not an oxymoron!
Albert Ellis, pioneering psychologist, and father of rational emotive behavior therapy-REBT is dead at age 93.
Listen to hear about his legacy, and how he changed the world of modern psychology.
ALbert Eillis
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy-REBT
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MHM# 246 Relay for Life Wrap-upWe made over 120,000 American dollars!!! This was the most thrilling and emotional experience I have had in SL. While my words cannot do justice to the experience, the picture links I have included will help you to see what an experience it was.
Grace McDunnough's Music Pages
Waiting for the Survivors
Second Life Relay for Life
Dedric's Relay for Life Pictures
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MHM# 247 'Shrooms for Mental Health TreatmentWell, it had to come full circle. Here are a few reports on research being done utilizing mushrooms to help folks overcome psychiatric problems.
Psychedelic, you say? Well, give a listen
Research using psychedelics
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MHM# 248 Out of a Rut --Artist's BlockOut of a rut, and into SL. I talk about my attempts to bring myself out of the doldrums. It worked for me, and it can work for you~
Second Life Woodstock
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MHM# 249 Doing the Same Thing Over AgainAh, yes, I will NEVER do that again...until I do it again and again.
What is it that makes us repeat the same impulisve behavior, even when we know we shouldn't?
Listen...
Guilt and Bad Behavior
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MHM# 250 Psyche Shines ThroughWell, many folks think the Second Life lacke dimension, and that human relations suffer from this.
I beg to differ, and I even think that in some ways things may be even be more intense. In fact I differ from Prokovy Neva.
In addition to this, I talk about the person what has that *thing* that makes us a slave to them
My Blog
Prokovy Neva's Blog
Second Life
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MHM251 Happiness, HappinessThis podcast is about research on the things that make one happy, and it kinda boils down to money and choice.
Of course you want more details than that, so give a listen.
I list the happiest and unhappiest countries. See if you can guess.
World Database of Happiness
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