psychology
People not always needed to alleviate loneliness
cognitive science | health | psychologyNew research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company. “Biol
Apollo archetype
greek mythology | metaphors | psychologyAccording to Professor of psychiatry Jean Shinoda-Bolen:
"As an archetype, Apollo personifies the aspect of the personality that wants clear definitions, is drawn to master a skill, values order and harmony, and prefers to look at the surface rather than at what underlies appearances. The Apollo archetype favors thinking over feeling, distance over closeness, objective assessment over subjective intuition."Gods in Everyman: A New Psychology of Men’s Lives and Loves (1989) p.135 Harpur & Row
Loneliness is bad for your health
aging | health | psychology | science | stressTwo University of Chicago psychologists, Louise Hawkley and John Cacioppo, have been trying to disentangle social isolation, loneliness, and the physical deterioration and diseases of aging, right down to the cellular level.
