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Grief doesn't just go away -- it's something you have to work through

We’re used to tragedy.  Car accidents, cancer diagnoses, unexplained deaths – they happen every day.  But are we any good at grieving? In an article in Natural News, Dr. Larry Malerba explores the...

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Bread or church? Where does civilization come from?

The story I got in high school is that agriculture was the magic potion that eventually turned “cave men” into “urban man.”  We got together and created a civilization because we wanted to eat. The...

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A widening gender gap -- for therapists

Is it too hard to find a male therapist? A recent article in the New York Times suggested that only one in five new Masters Degrees in therapy are awarded to men … and that this means patients who are...

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Taking collaboration to the fourth dimension

We used to know what "collaboration" meant.  But in the 21st century we can collaborate "in person," or through chat, or video chat, or through email, or "waves," or 3D avatars in a virtual...

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Neuroscience is starting to sound suspiciously like the 21st century's...

You know a scientific field has turned into a scientific fad when it says it’s changed EVERYTHING. Real scientific breakthroughs of that scope don’t have to announce themselves.  Fake ones do, because...

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Does our "work self" need therapy too?

Anybody who's had to work for a living knows that we have a "work self" that is noticeably different from who we are outside of work. Maybe we're more guarded, or more serious;  maybe there are...

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What's college for in the 21st century?

In a recent essay for The New Yorker, Louis Menard recalls the first time a student ever asked him “Why did we have to read this book?”  It’s the more direct way of asking:  what is this education...

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Test score fiascos demonstrate, again, how much American education needs a...

What’s that?  There was widespread cheating on standardized tests in the Atlanta school system? Surprise surprise …It’s gotten to the point where you can reasonably expect:  if a school district or...

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Existentialism, psychoanalysis ... and the tragedy of life

An essay on The New Existentialists suggests why ideas like existentialism and psychoanalysis -- once mainstayes of Western culture -- suddenly fell out of favor.  Existentialism and psychoanalysis...

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Is your organization neurotic? Maybe it needs therapy.

Anybody who’s worked for an organization knows it can be … well … neurotic.Organizations have tics, and blind spots, and habits, just like people do.  So maybe it’s not surprising, in fact it’s...

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Information is not like bread

It seems like we live in an age when politicians and “digerati” believe that universities can be replaced by Twitter – no harm done. That, suggest Stewart Brand, is because we think that new...

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Saybrook University Makes Strong Showing at APA Conference

 Despite its small size, Saybrook University made an outsize impression though faculty, student and alumni research at the American Psychological Association conference.The 120th annual conference,...

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Walking the scientific tightrope

A new article on the Huffington Post by Saybrook President Mark Schulman looks at new studies showing the efficacy of acupuncture - and asks why there was such hostility among mainstream medicine to...

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Chip Conley, Saybrook’s Scholar-Practitioner in Residence, launches new...

Did you know that in one of the coldest spots on earth, the people of Habin, China, create an ice and snow festival?Or that every 12 years there the most prominent gurus and spiritual pilgrims of India...

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Mark Schulman: Defending Science Against the 'Futurists' and 'Marketing...

The TED organization isn't the first to censor scientists for having unconventional ideas.  It's just the latest.It's worth remembering that for hundreds of years, "scientific evidence" was used to...

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