HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: alpinist@eskimo.com (David Butler)
Subject: Re: Charles Dickens & psychology
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:37:07 GMT

In article <1jho9aINNnsp@slab.mtholyoke.edu> jpyle@MtHolyoke.edu (Jon Pyle) writes:
>    He lives happily, but whenever he suffers stress, he departs from reality, 
>thinks he is a shoemaker, and hammers away at shoes at his bench.  While Dr. 
>Manette is doing this he is not his normal self; he works 9 to 5 is his room,
>and feels only the responsibility to make shoes.  Eventually, he 'wakes up' 
>and acts normal again, and has no memory of what happened.  The remedy to this 
>disorder is to destroy the shoemaking bench.
>    Does this disorder actually exist?  Charles Dickens could not have known 
>about neurosis, psychosis, regression, etc., so this disorder was made up.

Well, I don't know about shoemakers but last century hatters would process
the felt for their hats with mercury.  Over time the mercury poisoning would
get to the extent of creating severe neurological damage, which would give
the person tics, memory loss and general 'crazy' behaviors.  That's where we
get the term 'mad as a hatter'.  It's possible something similar could occur
with shoemakers.  But Dickens may just have been creatively inventive.

-- 
Dave                                              alpinist@eskimo.com
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers - Oscar Wilde
From: tepper@ACF1.NYU.EDU
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Smoking Cessation
Date: 23 Jan 1993 04:56:15 GMT
Organization: New York University, NY, NY
Reply-To: tepper@ACF1.NYU.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: acf1.nyu.edu

Is anyone aware of any literature dealing with the influence of cultural
factors in smoking cessation efforts with individuals of Chinese and/or
Latin American heritage?  Email replies would be appreciated.
Tepper@acfcluster.nyu.edu     Thanks, Jesse J. Tepper, Ph.D.
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: szikopou@alfred.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos)
Subject: patriarchy on parade
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:13:49 GMT



Here's a message I received today. Please add your support to it and help  
others:


|>From POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU!JRYCENGA Wed Jan 20 11:52:44 1993
|
|For political activists, or media watchdogs, or just concerned
|women, here's a quick something you can do to help prevent
|and stop domestic violence.
|
|Super Bowl Sunday - which this year is January 31, here in southern
|California at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena - is the single worst day
|for domestic violence in the USA.  There is an increase of as much as 40%  
in the volume handled by domestic violence shelters on this
|day.
|
|To try to stem this tide of violence, the Women's Action Coalition
(WAC) of Los Angeles is supporting the campaign by Fairness and Accuracy  
in Reporting (FAIR) to convince NBC (the network carrying the game) to  
carry two Public Service Announcements on domestic violence during the  
Super Bowl this year.  Anna Quindlen of the New York Times wrote a fine  
editorial in the 1/17/93 edition of the Times supporting this effort as  
well.
|
|What I am asking of you - and all your friends (please PLEASE
cross-post this to _any_ lists you can think of) - is to help us with a  
FAX/LETTER blitz on NBC, asking for these PSA's.  Here is a sample letter:
|
|Dick Ebersol
|President, NBC Sports
|NBC
|30 Rockefeller Plaza
|New York, NY  10112
|
|Dear Mr. Ebersol:
|
|We (I) support FAIR's request that you air two Public Service
Announcements on domestic violence during the Super Bowl game.  The Super  
Bowl is one of the most widely viewed television events of the year; it is  
also the day, according to women's shelters, when calls for help increase  
by as much as 40%.
|
|Your broadcast of the Super Bowl will reach a huge audience.  By your  
airing PSAs, NBC will be bringing to a national audience the critical and  
important issue of domestic violence.
|
|Sincerely,
|
|
|   You can rephrase or rewrite this letter to your liking, but please FAX  
or write them immediately.
|
|To reach NBC by FAX:  212-664-5835.
|
|   Thanks for helping - you may save someone's life, or skeletal
structure, or eyesight.
|
From: cerulean@access.digex.com (Bill Christens-Barry)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: interpret this: wall tappers
Date: 28 Jan 1993 20:20:07 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com
Summary: wall tapping: whatzit mean?
Keywords: psychoanalyze

Ok, all of you Freudian and other amateur psychologists.  I've been noticing
a lot of people where I work reaching out and touching the walls as they walk
the corridors.  I notice this behavior is a lot more common than it used to be.
These are scientists and engineers, for the most part, and a fair number of
clerical and administrative workers.  The workplace is a large research
facility, funded mainly by government sponsors.  It has largely escaped the
economic difficulties that have visited many other large organizations.

So what's the diagnosis?  Reaching out to see if the world is still there?
Or is it me, for noticing such things ;-}

cerulean@digex.com


Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: colby@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Kenneth Colby)
Subject: Re: Ericksonian approach to depression?
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:33:28 GMT

the best treatment for mild to moderate depression is
cognitive therapy. We sell a computer program Overcoming Depression 2.0
that administers cognitive therapy. Half price to net users ($99).
For more info, write or call MAIW, 25307 
Malibu Rd., Malibu,CA. 90265....1-800 497-6889
	      Ken Colby
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: awl1@quads.uchicago.edu (alpha wei-min lo)
Subject: habits
Reply-To: awl1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:39:13 GMT


 I would be very interested in finding out what people think
are the best ways to change habits. ( I'm not talking about
obsessive behaviours or phobias, but rather just simple every
day habits that one wants to change.)

  Thanks.

Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: tb1153@csc.albany.edu (BEIDEL TIMOTHY)
Subject: Looking for journal article on-line
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Distribution: sci
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:41:42

For a friend writing a paper on counselor burnout, I am looking for
Christina Maslach and S.E. Jackson's "The Maslach Burnout Inventory,"
Palo Alto, CA, Consulting Psychologists Press, 1981.

I believe it has been published as a manual, but none of the libraries
around here carries it.

Have GOPHERed around looking for it, but can't find it. Any suggestions?
--
Tim Beidel
Albany, NY
tb1153@csc.albany.edu
71064.2106@compuserve.com
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:32:34 EST
From: <DXD16@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: cai--counseling skills

A colleague of mine is seeking information from anyone who has used (is using)
a computer/multi-media approach to teaching counseling skills.  Areas of
interest include:
active listening, counseling, crisis counseling, counselor responses, verbal
skills, and interpersonal communication.
Broader areas of interest are:
human services, clinical psychology, and counseling psychology
Any suggestions will be appreciated--including more appropriate places to post
this note.
Please respond directly to me:
dxd16@psuvm.psu.edu
Thanks, Dan Doyle--Pennsylvania College of Technology
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:24:52 CST
From: <U53644@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: A legal black hole

A rather unpleasant situation has arisen. I'm posting this in the hope that
someone will have a good solution to it (I certainly don't), and to protest a
certain policy (or rather, the lack of one) that is making it worse.

Near the end of last year, my girlfriend (who was noteworthy for her
level-headedness) underwent a rather drastic personality change, quite
literally overnight). She would be talking about one subject, then all of a
sudden her voice would change, she'd start rambling incoherently, and then, a
minute later - she was back on her initial subject, and didn't know what had
happened ! She was convinced that every single action around her was part of a
conspiracy to do her in, and started hiding in her room for safety. None of
this bore any resemblance to the behavior that I or her friends knew to be
typical of her. When she was out of the room, she would burst into screaming
tirades (this from a woman who was known as a peacemaker). All of this change
occured between 10pm one night, and 11am the following morning. The woman we
knew was gone - and hasn't reappeared since.

Now, the suddenness with which this change came on, combined with the delusions
and the scrambled speech, make me wonder if something has gone organically
wrong here. I want to get her to a doctor, before it's too late if we're
looking at a neurological disease here.(I can't describe how happy I am that
she's putting on weight, at least a brain tumor looks unlikely).

Unfortunately, I can't. She's convinced that I'm part of the conspiracy, and
that nothing's wrong, and she won't see a doctor. The law seems to make it
impossible for me to act here. Apparently, the theory is that she chose to
forego medical treatment or examination freely. But if something is going
wrong with your central nrevous system, just how free are your choices ?
Is she choosing this, or is her condition doing so for her ? She never asked
for something like this to happen - it seems a bit unfair to argue that she
should be held responsible for the decisions it causes her to make.

Is this really a policy we want ? If you get a disease, and it affects your
mind in the wrong way, tough luck, friend, we're going to abandon you to your
fate ? She is a single adult (so her parents can't act here), and we aren't
married (so I can't - or can I ? Any answers ?). Even if someone reading this
takes the attitude that it isn't his problem - it really is. What happened to
her could happen to any single adult. There doesn't seem to be any mechanism
helping people out in such a situation.

If anyone knows of a solution to this problem - please write. The thought of
just abandoning someone in a situation like this is a little hard to take.


(You'll please pardon me for not signing this - I want to compromise my
 friend's privacy as little as possible).


Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong)
Subject: Family Background Syndrome
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:01:50 GMT

Someone told me that she was suffering from family background syndrome. I
have a rough idea of what that is, but does anyone know for sure?
From: gobbi@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca (Michael Gobbi)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: habits
Date: 26 Jan 1993 17:31:59 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: gdss.commerce.ubc.ca

alpha wei-min lo writes
> 
>  I would be very interested in finding out what people think
> are the best ways to change habits. ( I'm not talking about
> obsessive behaviours or phobias, but rather just simple every
> day habits that one wants to change.)
> 
>   Thanks.

I have found three effective techniques (in order of practicality
and usefulness):
1.  Put notes on your wall, refrigerator, bathroom mirror, etc.
    telling yourself what you want to do.
2.  Self-hypnosis
3.  Have friends remind you whenever you slip up.

And two ineffective techniques (for me -- I know people for whom
these approaches have worked quite well)
1.  Will-power (ie.  constantly monitering and correcting behaviour)
2.  Self-imposed reward & punishment behaviour modification techniques.
3.  Have friends tease you whenever you slip up.

--
     __    In quest of knowledge...
    /..\      <gobbi@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca>
---mm--mm---------------------------------------
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Psychology jokes
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:03:33 GMT

In article <1993Jan24.233530.8620@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson) writes:
>
>> Does anybody know any good psychology jokes?
>
Two behaviorist finish making love. One says to the other, "It was great
for you. How was it for me?"

(old but true...)


-- 
Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1
From: nicolas@cnam.cnam.fr (Nicolas Berloquin)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Ericksonian approach to depression?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 05:23:39 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi!

   I can't find any case treated by erickson on depression.
Does anyone have any info on this?
Can ericksonian approach replace hospital treatment (classical
psychiatric treatment).

                 Nico...

Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: tcarr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Carr)
Subject: creative women over 50
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:21:40 GMT


A posting for my wife:


I'm putting together an article on creativity in women over 50 for a
magazine called The Creative Woman. (That's the topic of our first issue of
1993). Specifically, I'm interested in finding out whether there is any
psychological or sociological explanation behind the creative burst that
some women experience at this point in their lives. 

I'd also like to find some historical examples of this to complement
profiles we're doing of women active today (e.g. Maggie Kuhn, Wendy
Wasserstine, Gwendolyn Brooks).

Of course, I'm on deadline (mid-Feb). Can anyone point me in the right
direction in terms of source materials -- studies, journal articles --
and/or experts to interview or consult with?

Please respond by email: tcarr@nwu.edu


Thanks.

Lisa Werner Carr
From: steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Psychology jokes
Date: 25 Jan 93 03:22:56 GMT
Organization: Don Steiny Software

sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson) writes:

>From article <hbsperki.727789106@kraken>,
>by hbsperki@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (James Perkins):

>> Does anybody know any good psychology jokes?

>Q: How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?

>A: Only one, but the light bulb has to *want* to change.

>--

>Steve Matheson   Program in Neuroscience   University of Arizona
>sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu

	My mother always used to say "it takes one to know one."

	Or of course, my favorite.

	A guy goes to a psychologist and says "doctor, I don't know what
is the matter with me.   Sometimes I think I'm a teepee and sometimes I
think I'm a yirt."

	The doctor thought for a minute and the said "I know what your 
problem is, you are two tense (tents)."
-- 
Don Steiny
Don Steiny Software
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(408) 425-0382
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: kennehra@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Rich"TheMan"Kennehan)
Subject: What is Charter???
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:16:59 GMT



Hi.  A friend of mine is in a deep depression and has went to
psychologists for help, and they have said that she needs to be
sent to a place called "Charter".  What is Charter?  She has told
me that its a place that has high fences with spikes on the top and
once you're sent there its hard to get out.  She also said that you
have to wear their clothes (that are like jail clothes) and you cannot
have any visitors, not even your family.  And no phone calls or mail
either.  

   Is all of this true?  Suppose her parents did send her there.  What
are her chances of getting out?  And why do they shut out their
patients from the outside world like that?  (if its true)  Any replies
would be greatly appreciated.

- Rich
  kennehra@logic.camp.clarkson.edu
From: Paul.Hemeren@fil.lu.se (Paul Hemeren)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Statisitc packages for the Mac
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:19:14 GMT
Organization: Lund University Cognitive Science
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1

I am currently in the market for a stats. package that can do multiple
regression and multidimensional scaling/cluster analyses on the Mac. I
have looked at StatView and SPSS for the Mac. SPSS is admittedly powerful
and has practically all of the tests one may need. There is, however, one
drawback. The interface retains much of its appearrance from its earlier
versions as a mainframe program or, now, as used on smaller PCs. One
still has to generate the code. It's not quite what a Mac user is
accustomed to.
StatView, on the other hand, is more "user-friendly."  Its drawback is
that it doesn't seem to have the routines for multidimensional scaling
and cluster analyses. I'm curious as to what other researchers in
psychology are using to analyse their data. I would also be interested in
hearing the opinions of others who are familiar with the programs or
possibly other statistic packages for the Mac.
If this is a dead horse and has been beaten on numerous occasions in the
past, I regret the waste of bandwidth. 
Replies to Paul.Hemeren@fil.lu.se
Thanks,
Paul
From: sfm@manduca.neurobio.arizona.edu (Stephen Matheson)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Psychology jokes
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:35:30 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

From article <hbsperki.727789106@kraken>,
by hbsperki@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (James Perkins):

> Does anybody know any good psychology jokes?

Q: How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Only one, but the light bulb has to *want* to change.

--

Steve Matheson   Program in Neuroscience   University of Arizona
sfm@neurobio.arizona.edu
From: kentaro@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Wanted:Files on Abnormal Psyc.
Date: 27 Jan 93 20:55:33 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Does anybody know a ftp site where I can get a file on abnormal psychology?
I'm taking a class right now and need some information and help..
Any help is aprreciated..


Thanx. <in advance>



Email : kentaro@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
   or : kentaro@cadlab.engr.ukans.edu

Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: ebranscu@ceti.csustan.edu (Emily Branscum)
Subject: Emily Branscum.Asg #4, part C
Summary: RE: Announce: Roy Bhaskar Electronic Reading Group
Keywords: Science, Philosophy, Realism
Organization: CSU Stanislaus
Distribution: inet
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 01:02:59 GMT


This article was an interesting discussion on the naturalism vs.
positivism views of science.  The guy that posted this article
is going to start up an electronic reading group on Roy Bhaskar,
the man who poses the arguement.

If anyone is interested in some background of scientific research,
read this article: 7959 sci.psychology.
-- 
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
! Emily Branscum        email: ebranscu@altair.csustan.edu            !
!          C.S.U. Stan Psych Major                                    !
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: e.h.bogart@larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Statisitc packages for the Mac
Date: 27 Jan 1993 13:34:00 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: e.h.bogart@larc.nasa.gov (Ed Bogart)
NNTP-Posting-Host: psychomac.larc.nasa.gov

Paul.Hemeren posts;

=I am currently in the market for a stats. package that can do multiple
=regression and multidimensional scaling/cluster analyses on the Mac. 

Paul

The package you want is Systat.  We have been using it for several years
and are still happy with it.  It costs more than most stat packages but
is far more powerful.

Ed Bogart


Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: historical effects on psychology
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:10:34 GMT

In article <771@muller.loria.fr> falex@coue.loria.fr (Frederic Alexandre) writes:
>Hello, 
>
>I am very interested in the effects of the historical context on 
>psychologist theories. For example, it has been said that Freud
>spoke about hysteria and built a theory around it because this desease
>was very frequent in Austria at the end of the XIXth century.
>
>I am trying to build an analysis grid of the historical effects on:
>
>-psycho-analysis
Try Ellenberger's book. I think it's called _The discovery ofthe unconscious_,
or somesuch. It puts a lot of the psychoanalytics' ideas in the context
of their own lives, without trivializing the matter.
>
>-behaviorism
See O'Donnell's book _The rise of behaviorism_. You might also look at
Lawrence Smith's _Behaviorism and logical positivism: A reassessment of
the alliance_ (or, perhaps, Lp&B... I can never remember the order).
>
>-cognitivism
Bernard Baars _The cognitive revolution_. This book is a collection
of interviews with behaviorists, crossover researchers, and full blown
cognitivists. It begins with about the most lucid account of the origins
of the cognitive revolution I've ever read, authored by Baars.
>
>-Lewin's theory
This is a tough one. The roots of Gestalt psych go back the the positivism-
phenomenology split in the 1880's. You might look at Titchener's book
(still available in paperback, I think) called something like _Prolegomena
to systematic psychology_. It is his account of the Wundt-Brentano debate
in the 19th century. On Gestalt, take a look at Kohler's APA Presidential
address (in _American Psychologist_ somewhere in the late 1950s or early
1960s). Also, look at Mary Henle's article on Gestalt movement in Koch &
Leary's _100 years of psychology as a science_. Also, Rudolf Arnheim published
a paper on common miscontruals of Gestalt-ism in psychology texts in an
issue of _American Psychologist_ in the mid 1980s.  
Lewin's Topological psychology is a much harder nut to crack.
There is an exchange of articles between him and Tolman in the 1930s in 
_Pscyh Review_, I think. Something about "Aristotelian" and "Galilean" views
of science. Very revealing.
>
There is also woman at Wesslyan university -- a specialist in history of
psych -- who has been writing some interesting material on societal 
influences on scientific research programs, particularly with respect
to psychology. I can't recall her name, but you might be able to track
her down with this information.

If your library gets it, there an article on the origins of operationism
in _Theory and Psychology_ (1992) by me. You might find it interesting,
though the focus is on the influences of other science on psychology,
rather than on the influences of society at large.

Good luck!

-- 
Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Subject: Re: Description of Overcoming Depression 2.0
Reply-To: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Organization: Ingres Corporation, a subsidiary of The ASK Group, Inc.
Date: 26 Jan 93 08:01:22 GMT

Sounds great, where can I ftp it?

-- Jon
--
Jon Krueger  jpk@ingres.com
From: falex@coue.loria.fr (Frederic Alexandre)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: historical effects on psychology
Date: 22 Jan 93 11:19:23 GMT
Organization: Crin-Inria-Lorraine

Hello, 

I am very interested in the effects of the historical context on 
psychologist theories. For example, it has been said that Freud
spoke about hysteria and built a theory around it because this desease
was very frequent in Austria at the end of the XIXth century.

I am trying to build an analysis grid of the historical effects on:

-psycho-analysis

-behaviorism

-cognitivism

-Lewin's theory

Do you know if any work has been done on this subject?
Could you give me any references or, simply, your opinion
on such a subject, its validity, examples that could illustrate
this influence...

Thank you very much in advance,

 alex

E-mail: falex@loria.fr