So, I have thought about this topic for a long time, and I finally wrote about it for a reflection paper for my diversity class. Good thing it's not graded--I would have been given a failing grade for standing up for the nefarious anti-diversity institution called the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic, full-Gospel, full-Sacramental Church ( Read more... )

The primary emotion which is first in an implicit, unconscious manner cannot be reached through language. Can it be tapped through music? Perhaps in the process of music making. For example, given the task of improvising music, the client is given the task of making external the internal state. Does this happen in ways other than symbolically? Of ( Read more... )

I have a lot of ideas.

social utilitarianism.

I could write about faith and psychology.

I could write about self-expression.

I could write about the detriments of secular humanism (similar to above).

I could write on assessment in music therapy.

I could write about the psychological factors in common (subclinical?) addictions such as pornography and ( Read more... )

I was fumbling around facebook tonight and I saw some names from high school I have not seen in a while.  I associate those people with greatness.  They went to great schools.  They have great jobs.  Those beautiful people ( Read more... )

Maybe it's all the psychopathology textbook that I've been reading lately, but I feel very neurotic.  I realize that I tend to avoid certain situations for irrational reasons.  I can't seem to socialize normally.  I am just lost in social situations.  I get emotional hearing country music.  I feel very uptight.  I feel very underachieving, ( Read more... )

families
Catholic minority
the person as utility

I have been writing about this blog that I want to start.  I have so many ideas--a blessing and a curse.  I want to write about so many topics.  They are so ranging!

Music: theory, criticism, innovation

Catholicism: theology, liturgy, apologetics, faith-based ramblings

Psychology: neuropsychology, theoretical, clinical, integration between ( Read more... )

I want ( Read more... )

My mind and my heart long for Truth.  That is one of the reasons I love to read--I crave Truth and devour it passionately.  That is why I took a month off from life besides work and wedding planning to read Lord of the Rings--there was such depth, such Truth and beauty.  That is why I crave reading blogs about psychology and want to talk about ( Read more... )

I get so sucked in to conversation about music, psychology, philosophy, and other artistic subjects.  Even if I do not talk much, I love to listen, read, and observe ( Read more... )