Why Are Relationships So Important?
The yardstick governing each person’s approach to life is not found in a structure of the brain. The brain has the same anatomical structures in each person. However, the “thinking” apparatus of the brain is responsible for the processes we call our conscious...
How Does Emotional Illness Differ from Mental Illness?
Since this blog deals with self-understanding, we will look at the emotional consequences of a lack of self-understanding. These consequences result in emotional illnesses. Emotional illnesses are different from mental illnesses. Major mental illnesses are severe...
Why is Self-Understanding Important?
Since I have been posting Self-Understanding blogs for a year, I thought I would re-visit several earlier blogs that create the foundation for what I have been discussing. In this way new readers can be introduced to the earlier ideas. Attempts to fathom how one’s...
Listening to Conversations
Everywhere I go I overhear conversations. The women and men at the hairdresser’s talk about selfish people. The men at the coffee shop banter about not understanding women’s thinking. The people at the bookstore are musing over failed relationships and marriages. The...
Is Your Child Shy and Susceptible to Being Taken Advantage Of?
This is not an actual case but a composite of thousand of similar cases. A four-year-old boy has just started preschool. He is reticent to join in activities and defers to other children in decisions about what to play with and what toys. Other children can...
Does Your Child Fight, Bite, and Hit?
This is not an actual case but a composite of thousands of similar cases. A five-year-old girl was aggressive in kindergarten, biting the teacher and other students whenever she did not have her way and was thwarted. These behaviors took place when she wanted to be...
That’s Just Who I Am
You will hear people today retreat into non-explanations of themselves even to themselves. Insight is missing. And, people do not seem to care they are not insightful. Many wear it as a badge of honor, proclaiming, “That’s just who I am.” We live in an age of personal...
Is Pavlov Relevant?
Ivan Pavlov’s work on conditioning in dogs is well-known. What is not so well known is that he worked toward understanding in humans how the mind works (see Daniel P. Todes’ book, Ivan Pavlov—A Russian Life in Science). Just as a dog can be taught to salivate on...
Confusion in Relationships: “You Don’t Love Me and You Never Did”
Much confusion takes place in ordinary conversations. Some confusion results from projections. Projections involve the mental process of attributing to another person whatever you are thinking or feeling. It is a totally subjective approach because no input is...Connect with Dr. Adams
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