Articles with tag: psychology
Three Poems by Allama Iqbal
Ali Hashmi Nov 14, 2009 interacts: 15‘Maa ka Khwaab’ (A Mother’s Dream) while on the surface a simple description of a mother's dream fearing for her child's safety, is a profound explanation of a core concept in child development, that of 'Separation-Individuation'
Peace The Final Frontier
Taji M Nov 2, 2009 interacts: 8The operation in Waziristan is a very temporary solution, and its only aim should be to halt immediate attacks, but ultimately the peace has to be negotiated, whether we like to talk to Talibans or not.
Bubble of a Believer
Tahir Qazi Aug 25, 2009 interacts: 323Spirituality is mystification of feeling, a subtle peg of believers’ subjectivism and just another name for unknown. There is nothing wrong about it as long as believers keep their piety to themselves and do not heap their spirituality on to others.
Dark Angel
Ali Hashmi Jun 8, 2009 interacts: 1The dead take no medicines, do not get admitted to hospitals and make no money for anyone. Therefore, if it can be helped, people are not allowed to die.
Me Against Myself
Anum Ali Jun 1, 2009 interacts: 8“Seek to win from yourself, and within yourself, rather than from the world you cannot control.�
Guerrilla Warriors...Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?
Khalid Sohail Mar 10, 2009 interacts: 133Are they motivated by love or hate? Do they promote peace or violence? Are their leaders progressive or regressive? Do they take their communities to a higher or a lower level of human evolution?
Study Of Terrorism
Aziz Dad Mar 3, 2009 interacts: 2Is terrorism determined by socio-political, psychological and economic forces or springs from individual? What can we learn from theories of Durkheim, Faisal Devji, Walter Benjamin
What Happened To Tania?
Nikhat Rasool Jan 26, 2009 interacts: 28Tania! My daughter… Our dream daughter, Sara’s and mine. It’s been six months now since she had gone. Where and why, I don’t know?
Freud and Jung and Their Secret Affairs
Khalid Sohail Jun 16, 2008 interacts: 136Of all of Freud’s admirers and critics, the most complex, complicated and troubled relationship was of Carl Jung. He started as an admirer and ended as a critic.
Logotherapy: Humanism In Psychiatry
Mutaal Mooquin May 21, 2008 interacts: 45The heart has reasons that reason does not know ... A reflection on Victor Frankl’s “The Unheard Cry for Meaning�
The Psychology of Mothering
Khalid Sohail Apr 13, 2008 interacts: 287It is interesting that as our culture is changing and many women are reluctant to take on motherly duties, more men are becoming motherly and nurturing.
Men's Liberation...Better Late Than Never
Khalid Sohail Feb 1, 2008 interacts: 47It is ironic that those men who become caring towards their wives are sometimes called sissy, wimp and 'zan mureed'
Fundamentalism and Violence
Khalid Sohail Dec 10, 2007 interacts: 123Human beings are conditioned by their families and communities and violent cultures produce violent people.
Neuro Politics
Tallat Abid Sep 17, 2007 interacts: 9When self-talk is not monitored cautiously it can lead to drastic effects on one’s personality, mentality and psychology.
Better Living through Chemistry
Ali Hashmi Jun 28, 2007 interacts: 14What would you give for a pill that made you happy or thin or helped erase the pain of losing a loved one?
The Agony of Remembrance
Ali Hashmi Jun 13, 2007 interacts: 7It may sound like a cliché but being thankful for what you have right now is the only antidote to the longing for the good old days.
The Power of Positive Thinking
Ali Hashmi Apr 11, 2007 interacts: 7After almost thirteen years working at a large multinational engineering firm, he had attended a workshop conducted by a consulting firm. He was so impressed (and probably so tired of the corporate treadmill) that he immediately began learning more, event
Fruits of Western Civilisation
Afaq Ali Dec 11, 2006 interacts: 13The first psychiatrist he saw, at age 7, decided after a 20-minute visit that the boy was suffering from depression.
A Humanistic Approach Towards Mental Illness
Khalid Sohail Dec 8, 2006 interacts: 51We need to see a day when people with mental illness can live respectfully and peacefully and do not fear to be persecuted and penalized because of their emotional problems.
Serial Killers...The Dark Side of Humanity
Khalid Sohail Sep 12, 2006 interacts: 63I discovered the sad reality that the incidence of serial killers and mass murderers has been gradually increasing worldwide in the last few decades. I was further intrigued to find out that America has the highest rate of serial killers per capita.
Devrai: Story of a Schizophrenic
Hiren K Bose Oct 18, 2005 interacts: 27You’re married living in a small Indian town, have a school-going child, and besides are burdened with an elder brother who is a patient of schizophrenia.
Sanity
Xoheb Sheikh Feb 7, 2005 interacts: 16I was taken aback. The paintings… the craft, the harmony, the beauty in them. And they were made by an abnormal girl?
Innovative Life
Ahsan Hussain Jan 19, 2005 interacts: 2This year, as an alternative to unrealistic and reproachful resolutions, consider following these 'Ten Steps to Emotional Health in 2005.'
SoulMate
Umair Mohsin Jan 14, 2005 interacts: 27There’s something about finding a soulmate. You just know what the other person is. You never have to explain yourself or even tell another about you. You just know.
Of Eros and Erosion
Jamal Rana Sep 8, 2004 interacts: 14Jelaluddine Rumi, the 13th century Muslim poet and mystic wrote, “Love is reckless, risks everything and asks for nothing, having died to self interest”.
I Belong
Sharmeen Saleem Mar 17, 2004 interacts: 19I have seen the other side of my world; the darker truth and I have been hidden away from. I am a part of two worlds but limited to one.
Schizophrenic
arunima sengupta Nov 19, 2003 interacts: 6In a few hours she would go home and get back to being Shruti Agarwal, loving daughter, niece, oldest grandchild of the Agarwal family again. Why was it so tiring, this double life?
Driving SAG for a Rockies Rider
Harimau Iyer Nov 14, 2003 interacts: 10It is a thin line that divides impulsiveness from obstinacy and a thinner line that divides cussed obstinacy from sheer downright craziness
i see red
manay na Nov 2, 2003 interacts: 4reverberates around, bouncing off walls, windows, boundaries: echoing inside a dungeon
Acidity - Novellete Part III (final)
Nadeem F Paracha Oct 31, 2003 interacts: 54A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and political neurosis
Acidity - Novellete Part II
Nadeem F Paracha Oct 6, 2003 interacts: 20A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and political neurosis
Acidity - Novellete Part I
Nadeem F Paracha Sep 29, 2003 interacts: 20A novelette zigzagging along an addict’s (heroinchie’s) pathological observations of the bleak and absurd comedy of 21st century’s social and political neurosis
Desi Fate
Ras Siddiqui Nov 30, 2000 interacts: 21Why is it that all Indians are so smart and well behaved?
The Confusion and the Foggy View
Sohail Rabbani Mar 2, 1998 interacts: 6This process of humility is not just an individual phenomenon, but also a collective one. As we continue to learn, we increasingly realize that we know less about the universe and ourselves than we previously imagined.
Where in the Brain is the Mind
Saad Shafqat Feb 14, 1998 interacts: 14The author, who has a background in neuroscience, tries to grapplewith the question of what makes us aware of our own existence.
