Science fiction writers who write for television, movies, or streaming services often use a “trick of the trade” to get their scripts finished on time. They will use the [INSERT SCIENCE HERE] trick. What is this? Let me describe it to you. A science fiction writer will be going along swimmingly describing the drama of a […]

Thanks for making it to the end of this blog series. In this final installment I’d like to mention some of the brain science we now have access to that has real world implications. As this blog series makes clear, this is the type of information that is not getting out to the general public […]

In the aftermath of WWII, orphans, numbering in the hundreds if not thousands, roamed the streets of London displaced in large part as a result of almost nightly areal bombing attacks. The orphan issue caught the attention of The World Health Organization (WHO), however, they had no way of getting a handle on the situation. […]

I was first introduced to the idea that a protracted period of “psychological birth” was required following actual “physical birth” after reading the 1975 book entitled Psychological Birth of the Human Infant—Symbiosis and Individuation by Margret Mahler, Fred Pine, and Anni Bergman. The authors argue that after physical birth a psychological symbiosis exists between mother and her infant. […]

Here’s your brain:   Here’s your brain on conceptualization: I do not wish to be glib here. I do, however, wish to point out that conceptualizations are not meant to be the things they conceptualize or represent. As Joseph Campbell would say of metaphors (and I paraphrase): Do not eat the menu for the meal […]