Psychology Tomorrow Blog

  • Carol Adams - Why? A narrative from a survivor of ritual abuse I want to know why. I want to know why he did it. Why he did it over and over and over again. Why did he have to hurt me that much. Why he laughed in the face of my pain. Why he told me repeatedly that he is only having sex with ...
  • Dr. Joseph Valks - Language and Psychosis The ability to use and interpret language is, as far as we are aware, a characteristic unique to the human species. It is an ability to express thoughts and feelings by spoken sounds or written symbols and for others to recognize and understand the meanings of these sounds and symbols. The term ‘language’ may also ...
  • Jed Diamond, PhD - The 4 Key Causes of the Irritable Male Syndrome Truth time! I wrote the book, Irritable Male Syndrome: Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and Aggression to make sense of my own life and how it was impacting my family. Seeing a doctor and getting medications to treat my own depression and bipolar disorder helped a lot. But there were still ...
  • Adam Neal - Poli-Psi: The Politics of Psychic Practice, Part I In this three-part feature, we will discuss the politics, dynamics, and ethics of psychic exchange. The ongoing arguments against psychic practice echo the same “reasoning” of the self-proclaimed ‘godless,’ whose certainty of the comprehensible, fully understood nature of the universe at this moment presumes a transcendent knowledge that no man could (or will ever) acquire. Psychics ...
  • Magdalena Bak-Maier, PhD - What You Seek Is Seeking You Seeking: the real magic and joy of what can be at times a pretty frustrating process It is easy to assume that the universe is against us especially when what we want somehow eludes us. Have you ever been in a situation where something you desperately wanted or were working towards seemed within reach, only to ...
  • Jed Diamond, PhD - The New Human Vocation Is To Heal the Earth [In this six-part feature, Jed Diamond examines his male experience through fatherhood, mental illness, and the Men’s Movement to explore what it means to be a more whole, mindful Man. | Part I: Fatherhood | Part II: My Female and Male Mentors | Part III: Why We Must Disengage from the Woman in Order to Learn to Love | Part IV: Gender Specific Medicine | Part ...
  • NYC Slow Art Day April 12, 2014 itmarksthespot will be participating in Slow Art Day 2014 on Saturday April 12, 2014. We invite you to participate in this global art movement. Slow Art Day is a worldwide celebration of art that encourages people to look at art SLOWLY– and thereby experience art in a new way. You can see more about Slow Art ...
  • Nick Astraeus - The Diamond Diggers There’s a planet in the Milky Way where all the people dig all day, and that’s where I grew up. My town was a gigantic mine, and everyone I ever met was a digger. Every adult I knew just dug all day, and every kid I met in school was learning how to dig. Actually, the ...
  • Dr. Joseph Valks - Avatar – Did God Create Man Or Did Men Create Their Gods And Demons? The term ‘avatar’ is probably better known in Western popular culture as the title of James Cameron’s 2009 epic science fiction action film. Set in the midst of the 22nd century a genetically engineered body is controlled by the mind of a remotely located human (‘dream walker’) and used to interact with a blue-skinned humanoid ...
  • Dr. Joseph Valks - Mathematics in Art and Psychology Galileo Galilei wrote that the universe is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures. Artists who strive and seek to study nature must therefore first fully understand mathematics. On the other hand mathematicians have sought to interpret and analyze art through the lens of geometry and ...
  • Lena A. Derhally - Want More Happiness? Cultivate Better Relationships Happiness is an elusive topic that has been studied and contemplated by many throughout history. While there are many theories and ideas of what it means to be happy, I decided to focus on the relational aspect of happiness in this blog. As an Imago relationship therapist and someone who specializes in helping my clients ...
  • Jed Diamond, PhD – My Men’s Movement Part V: The Ship of Civilization is Sinking Men’s ...
  • Dr. Joseph Valks - Mythical Creatures and Ghouls from the Orient In a previous blog I looked at whether God created man, or men created their own gods and demons. It can be fascinating to look at some of the ancient myths and legends of different cultures and the fantastic creatures that have been created; let us take a look at the myths and legends of one ...
  • Rebecca Lee – Psychiatric Chart of Objects Name: The Green Pen Discharge Diagnosis: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Opening and Closing Date: 8/23/13 - 1/13/14 Reason for Admission: Not able to work. When asked what happens if someone does not click his top, he simply states ”I can not write.” Allergies: Dry air. Outcome: Can work sometimes. Will need to be on medication for the rest of his life.   Name: The Piano ...
  • Jed Diamond, PhD - My Men’s Movement Part IV: Gender-Specific Medicine Re-Connection Between Men and Women Early ...
  • Magdalena Bak-Maier, PhD – Acceptance: A Doorway to Creativity and Transformation Life has a rhythm. Put yourself into the middle of it, whether it’s sitting in a café, standing on a corner of a street or walking along a rural village country lane. Allow yourself to feel the energy that is present all around you. The sun. The air. The sounds that surround you. Smells. Transient ...
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  • Jed Diamond, PhD, LCSW – My Men’s Movement Part III: Why We Must Disengage from the Woman in Order to Learn to Love Like most men I know, I never had a strong, loving relationship with my father ...
  • There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Different: Raising Awareness of Human Rights Violations in Russia and Ukraine   Eastern European pop artists, Alek Sandar (Issue 10, Masculinity - Sexuality and Identity: “Drawing Attention: An International Pop Star Poses Nude for Art Class“) and Andrea, are raising awareness of human rights violations in Russia and Ukraine, calling for peace and progress through their new music video, “Peaceful Place”: “This song and video go out to ...
  • Sexuality Tomorrow: Masculinity and The New Dawn of Ethical Porn and Prostitution Ethical porn director, Nica Noelle, and sexologist, Carol Queen, discuss ethical porn and prostitution at the Center for Sex and Culture in San Francisco (Psychology Tomorrow MeetUp: January 30th, 2014)   Stanley Siegel: Psychology Tomorrow magazine will focus a good deal on sex. Unlike psychology magazines of the past, this magazine will have a sex positive approach. ...
  • Jed Diamond, PhD, LCSW – My Men’s Movement Part II: My Female and Male Mentors My mother was my first hero. After ...
  • Christopher Dawson - Fiction and the Consciousness of Guilt It must be written somewhere, among the most stringent rules of writing fiction, that every character’s actions should be justified by some logic, reason or motive. But in reality, the ever mysterious human mind, in all of its as-yet-unravelled complexity, does not necessarily work in such a way. I would like to share a discovery of ...
  • Jessica Hubbard - Why Logic is Not God: And Neither Is Education “It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there might be a better way.” I feel strongly that reason is a tool. A valuable tool when used correctly. It is a means to an end. What it is not is an end in itself. It took me a long time to realize ...
  • John Glynn - Psychology and Video Game Nostalgia: From Mario to Mortal Kombat Back in the 1600s, Swiss physicians and neologism lovers conceived the term nostalgia. The word was used to express a type of deliberation or reminiscence. The boffins observed and questioned Swiss mercenaries who protected foreign kings, combatants who yearned for their simple, domestic life of yesteryears. However, while the researchers must be commended for identifying ...
  • Oxytocin: How One Molecule Shapes Our Social Lives “Oxytoncin is the love, cuddle, moral, holiday, group think hormone that reinforces who we are, for better or for worse…”
  • Jed Diamond, PhD, LCSW - My Men’s Movement Part I: Fatherhood When I ...
  • Tracy Shawn - Why a Novel About Anxiety? Years ago, I was sitting alongside other budding novelists in an ongoing writing class, rapt attention on the much-revered teacher. She asked each of us to share what our novels-in-progress were about. Trying to the keep the shakiness out of my voice, I said, “It’s about what happens when a woman with severe anxiety reconnects ...
  • Adam Neal - Pro Cons: The Perils of Psychic Exchange You see it watching TV, scrolling through Youtube, reading magazines, and perusing books: Fraud, phony, charlatan, illusionist, mentalist, mind-reader, schemer. These monikers are flung easily (many feel justifiably) at psychic practitioners. They are believed by many to be expert ‘con’ artists, wielding their tongues and weaving a manipulative web around their clients, the victims of their ...
  • Magdalena Bak-Maier, PhD - Self-love: Healing the Heart with Dance Your eyes stare into mine, yet I feel the door to your soul shut. Your body is cuddled next to mine, wrapped in a blanket. You’re hugging me the way you hug vivid dreams or nightmares that plague your sleep. My hands want to reach for you. They crave to touch you. To connect with that ...
  • Dave Stant - The Self-concept Approach to Happiness The self-concept approach to happiness begins with the notion that your self-concept, or how you view yourself, is the key contributing factor to your happiness. I have broken down the self-concept into two parts: identity and self worth. Identity is further broken down into two components: “who you are” and “what you are.” Both of these ...
  • Carly Abramovitz – Letting Go of Love I can’t seem to let go no matter how hard I try. My first love (from nearly a decade ago) and I long parted hearts, yet she still turns up in my dreams. The relationship didn’t end the way I wanted it to and we don’t talk at all. I’ve moved on geographically and emotionally ...
  • John Glynn - 6 Guilty Pleasure Tracks We All Secretly Love John Glynn is a PhD graduate in Psychology. This article was first published on WhatCulture.com on June 14, 2013. I must admit, I found this list rather difficult to compose. As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and when it comes to our go-to guilty pleasure songs that statement is oh so true. The ...
  • Stanley Siegel, LCSW - 20 Questions to Help You Identify Your Sexual Fantasies Do you really understand your sexual fantasies? Answer these questions to identify your true desires. What do you think about during sex? What do you think about when you masturbate? Is there a central or main fantasy? Does the main theme change or remain the same? What mental image or thought actually brings you to climax? What is the specific plot or ...
  • Lena A. Derhally - You’re Not Nervous: Anxiety, Worry and Control in Motherhood A few weeks ago my nanny told me she enjoyed working for me because (in her own words), I’m “not nervous.” Of course, my first instinct was to give myself an inner high-five: “Oh yeahhh, I am that cool, laid-back mom that everyone wants to work for. I’m so cool, calm and relaxed. I am ...
  • Adam Neal - The Psychic Diet, Part III: The Weight of the Body In this three-part feature, we will discuss methods of Self-Therapy from the 3 planes of human existence: Spirit, Mind, & Body The Body is the final part of the process of resolving a symptom through self-therapy. Once in this phase, you have already gained necessary insight into the ...
  • Magdalena Bak-Maier, PhD - A Cosmic Dance How the Mind and the World Around You Co-create the Wisdom You Need to Thrive Throughout centuries different cultures and tribes across all continents looked towards nature for wisdom and meaning and saw themselves as part of a wider system. For example, a number of African tribes and Native American Indians view all things (living and ...
  • Alyssa Siegel, MS, LPC - Sex. Writing. Sex Writing. So I helped write a book. It’s a good book. It’s a sex book. It’s a father-daughter, therapist-team sex book. What could be more fun than that?! The funny thing is, I never imagined that I would become a counselor that focused on or specialized in sex. I’m guessing that my father didn’t either. But just ...
  • Kimberly Lieu - Men of the Future and Spike Jonze’s Her In Spike Jonze’s latest film, Her, we find Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) emotionless and disconnected from the rest of the world. He’s in the midst of an excruciating divorce, struggling with recollections of the tender moments of his marriage while working a day job as writer for a love letter company. In his quest for some kind ...
  • Last Minute But Forever First - Inaugural Exhibit at Brooklyn Brush Studios 203 on Saturday, Jan 25th, 2014 Come check out BBS203 - the new Brooklyn Brush Studios project with over 50 new studios catering to Artists, Makers and small businesses. Visit the gallery ‘Parenthesis Art Space’ situated in the heart of BBS203 where the show “Last Minute But Forever First” is on view. The work on display is a survey of the inspired artwork ...
  • Dr. Joseph Valks - Using Neurological Processes and Computer Art to Model Global Warming Neural networks are an extremely simplified model of how the brain works. Basically, the brain consists of numerous nerve cells called neurons, which can be thought of as information processors. Information from other neurons enters each neuron through hair-like structures called dendrites. This is then processed and the output is relayed to other neurons via ...
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  • Adam Neal - The Psychic Diet, Part II: Making Up Our Mind In this three-part feature, we will discuss methods of Self-Therapy from the 3 planes of human existence: Spirit, Mind, & Body Now that you have conquered the first mountain—a willingness to seek guidance—you can move down to the level of the mind. In your mind, candidly tell yourself your symptom of ...
  • Kimberly Lieu - A New Dogma: Alain de Botton on Art as Therapy “Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.” - Theodore Zeldin Where can people find consolation and meaning in the 21st century? Alain de Botton, co-author of Art as Therapy and a philosopher from the School of Life, argues that culture - especially art - can support us in our messy, modern lives. Unlike Art Therapy, ...
  • Stanley Siegel, LCSW - Making Sex Positive Choices Part Three: Crossing Conventional Boundaries Most of us, gay and straight alike, feel that having a life-long partner is preferable to going through life alone or with a series of affairs or short-term relationships. There is much in ...
  • Ada Rios-Rivera, PhD - When “Your Place or Mine?” Becomes “Your Fault Not Mine!” When it comes to relationships we are a culture of people that loves or hates. That’s it. Those are our choices. There’s no murky middle ground where we sift the silt for hidden options, new ideas or even re-evaluate the old ones. So it’s no surprise that the optimist’s win-win question, “Your place or mine?” ...
  • Dr. Joseph Valks - The Future of Mind Control Technology It is claimed that over the years the US government has developed a method of remote physical/neurological attack that employs no visible assailants or weaponry and leaves little if any physical evidence. There are even more outrageous claims that American citizens are suffering daily as targets of this no-touch torture program. Stalking is a well known ...
  • Lorenzo Baccalà - What Makes a Ladies’ Man? Much has been written about what makes a ladies’ man but so far the formula escapes adequate definition. The reason? “Because it tries to be done with words.” The purpose of words is to communicate and not to define. For example, all of us have seen a couple who are unquestionably in love but then ...
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana – On Kissing FROM THE KAMA SUTRA OF VATSYAYANA. TRANSLATED FROM THE SANSCRIT. It is said by some that there is no fixed time or order between the embrace, the kiss, and the pressing or scratching with the nails or fingers, but that all these things should be done generally before sexual union takes place, while striking and making the various sounds ...
  • Ogueji Ifeanyichukwu A. - Transformation Through Psychology Psychology is best defined by my life, most especially by my past life. I was fixated in the phallic stage of psychosexual development. My family and I always thought it was a spiritual problem and we prayed seriously about it. The weather changed for the better when I started studying psychology at the University of Ibadan in ...
  • The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana – Of the Embrace FROM THE KAMA SUTRA OF VATSYAYANA. TRANSLATED FROM THE SANSCRIT. This part of the Kama Shastra, which treats of sexual union, is also called “Sixty-four” (Chatushshashti). Some old authors say that it is called so, because it contains sixty-four chapters. Others are of the opinion that the author of this part being a person named Panchala, and the person who recited ...