Night falls, winter crawls, and summers to remember.When forced to reflect and recall, we decide to deny it all.Seeking inner recesses from the worries outside.Where do we go to hide when there is also division inside? The lines of this poem were used to create the above image using NightCafe Creator, an AI art generator. …
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Psychological Fragments: Emotional Systems
Emotions are energetically charged psychic content. The magnitude and direction of this charge can be mediated or controlled by conscious cognitive processes, such as thinking, and less conscious aspects, such as attitudes. Emotional charges have affinities for like-charged units and tend to form clusters that increase their gravity (psychic significance) and complexity. Moreover, these aspects …
Tension of the Times
One of the hallmarks of Carl Jung's work is his conceptualization of the shadow. Roughly speaking, the shadow consists of instincts, aspects, qualities, and the like that are unrecognized or repressed in oneself. Jung did not believe that the shadow was only comprised of bad things but also included good parts and positive potentialities (Sharp, …
A Societal Denial
So many issues and challenges surround our daily lives. Our level of concern for ourselves and society at large has continued as a perpetual buzz that lies slightly below our conscious awareness. To become desensitized to the chaotic nature of these times is one response to the presence of fear. There are other ways to …
Perceptual Differences in ADHD
ADHD continues to gain interest throughout those who do and do not have the diagnosis alike. Why is interest in this neurodevelopmental disorder gaining traction? Likely, it is a confluence of events, namely the movement toward neurodiversity, increasing acknowledgement of adult-diagnosed ADHD, and a continued normalization of mental health, in general. As one of the …
Decisions of Motion
Why is it that whenever something comes to an end we tend to, or inevitably succumb to the urge, reflect back upon how it all began? There is a part of me that wants to refuse the tug of the past and instead continue steadfastly moving forward, with my gaze fixed upon the potentialities held …
Aging and Emotional Preferences
Most of us strive to feel good; this doesn’t necessarily mean we are continually striving after pleasure in a hedonistic sense; rather, our strivings toward feeling good can be described as striving toward feeling a positive affect. In science, and specifically the field of psychology, the term affect typically refers to the visible manifestation of …
An Analysis of Initial Conditions
One of the principle issues in philosophy is causality. Whether engaged in from an academic viewpoint or not the matter of causality is inescapable. In order to have an ordered view of our worlds’, we must have some degree of an organizing principle. And, in order to do this, we also must be able to …
Psychological Fragments: Ease and Uncertainty
Cognitive ease states that how efficiently we process information influences our attitude and feelings toward whatever that something is that we are mentally engaged with; moreover, our motivation to expend effort and move toward (approach) or opt for conserving energy and not taking action toward whatever the perceived end goal might be is also affected …
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A Two Sided Truth 