Interview with Alexander Sasha Shulgin in Mexico (1996)

Alexander Sasha Shulgin in Mexico (1996)

Interviewed by Dutch journalist Luc Sala Palenque Norte Conference, Mexico

https://youtu.be/531M5hGzSU0

Vincent van Gogh - The Drinkers

 

Vincent van Gogh - The Drinkers

The Heart of Addiction: Understanding the Behavior with Lance Dodes, MD

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Psychoanalytic Understanding and Treatment of Addiction with Lance Dodes, MD, presented as the Paul A Dewald MD Lecture by the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute



Addiction has long been deeply misunderstood both in our culture and in clinical practice.  Long thought to be a reflection of poor impulse control or self-destructiveness, or a result of genetic or physical factors, addiction can now be shown to be a psychological mechanism -- a subset of psychological compulsions in general.  This means that for many people addiction is best understood and treated through psychodynamic psychotherapy

In this lecture Dr. Dodes shares innovative ways to understand and treat addiction, sheds light on the roles that physical and psychological factors play in addictive behavior, and explores the relationship between addictions and compulsions.



For more than twenty years, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions -- alcoholism, compulsive gambling, smoking, sexual addiction, and more with a cutting edge approach.

Dr. Dodes describes how all addictions have, at their heart, unrecognized emotional factors that explain why we feel the impulse, why we feel it when we do, and what alternatives (really) work in that critical moment.

His books, The Heart of Addiction and Breaking Addiction: A 7-Step Handbook for Ending Any Addiction have been described as cutting-edge advances in understanding how addictions work.

Link: 

https://youtu.be/ZZNY0p5oX80

Project Chimps

Project Chimps

@projectchimps

A sanctuary for former research chimps, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Help us bring more chimps from the lab because it's their time to live.

Box 2140, Blue Ridge, GA projectchimps.org Joined August 2015

"Zydeco a Pas Sale", Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys

"Zydeco a Pas Sale", Jeffery Broussard and the Creole Cowboys

 https://youtu.be/fa8vyTfugcI 

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GET A LIFE NOW: Prenatal exposure to opioids.

GET A LIFE NOW: Prenatal exposure to opioids.: Nicholas Kristof@NickKristof · Sep 7 Every 15 minutes in America, a baby is born after prenatal exposure to opioids.  In West Virgini...

Information Overload is the Bane of my Life

My daily struggle is to understand what is important, to my situation, in the constant barrage of information on the Internet.  

What can and should be ignored?  

Is my purpose to seek distraction, novelty and entertainment? 

Or is the goal and purpose to my Net Surfing to gain valuable knowledge?  

What do I hope to accomplish?

“There are things that attract human attention, and there is often a huge gap between what is important and what is attractive and interesting."

- Yuval Noah Harari   

  

And Donald Trump has not helped make being informed easy with all his mixed messages.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

The Animal who cannot Sleep

“The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep" - E. M. Cioran Born on this day, in 1911 Henri Cartier-Bresson thanks to @DanielBrami1