Daniel Siegel: A System's View of Disintegration & Integration (He's still cute, he's still brilliant, he speaks in easy-to-remember aphorisms and he's still heartful. What's not to like?) "Integration is the linking of differentiated parts. The concept is useful for ass...

Day 1: Bessel van der Kolk is lovely. He's humble, he's funny, and he is the premiere researcher on the neurobiology and/or efficacy of trauma treatments in the world. And cute and brilliant, of course. Here are nearly random gems from 3 hours of notes: With trauma, there are no stories, onl...

[image source] Ovi Magazine posted this interesting and somewhat disturbing article on, well, those among us who religion might deem evil, science might deem psycho- or sociopathic, and humanistic psychology might see as deeply wounded. Should we seek to identify these people through some organized ...

It's that time again: year end "best of" lists are showing up all over the place. But this one is close to my heart - best brain stories from 2008 at the New Scientist . Your amazing brain: Top 10 articles from 2008 13:09 05 December 2008 For similar stories, visit the The Human Brain Topic Guide A ...

A nice fluff piece Q&A with Jonah Lehrer, a writer for Seed Magazine , The Boston Globe , and his own blog, The Frontal Cortex. He is always entertaining and insightful. As an aside, damn he's young. Questions for Jonah Lehrer Mind Games Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON Published: December 12, 2008 ...

Can we become addicted to grief? I think I have gone through times in my life when I enjoyed being unhappy, sought it out. It appears that such behavior has something to do with the brain's reward system. Some thoughts on this below the article. Addicted to Grief? When time doesn't heal, the brain's...

WALL-E, the new Pixar movie, is the perfect anthropomorphic attachment story. It's also a great movie and funny as hell. The first half, and most of the rest is an amost silent movie. Our hero, is a trash compactor robot who lives with an indestructible and graceful cockroach for company. He watches...

The other day, in a Psychology in the News post, I linked to an article in The New Yorker (by Jeffery Goldberg) called My Amygdala, My Self. The article proposed to be an examination of how brain scans can reveal preferences and biases, a field referred to as neuromarketing. Daniel Engber, over at S...

Research into the benefits and psychophamacological uses of hallucinogens is finally being allowed again, and the range of uses is quite remarkable. This article is from Discover . Could an Acid Trip Cure Your OCD? Researchers are again using mind-bending drugs as a means of treating mental disorder...

All kinds of interesting items on the mind & brain to report today. As always, these are excerpts of longer articles, so follow the links to read the whole article. From Psychology Today: Love's Loopy Logic A date makes us both spectator and performer at a two-ring circus: We troll for wit, kind...