Tag: Psychology

The Science of Inversion

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
Being upside down. Every kid loves that. Being hoisted up by the ankles and hanging there in your father's sure hands with your head where your feet should be. It's great as a game, but none of us could imagine going through life that way. But Norberto Keppe's discovery that humankind is inverted shows us how
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Therapy for the World Series: Ep.2 – The Terrible Trap of Inversion

In Therapy for the World, Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
Inversion. It’s a recent 20th century discovery by the brilliant Brazilian psychoanalyst and social scientist, Dr. Norberto Keppe. 1977 to be precise. So, if you hear about our modern inversion of values, you can be sure that’s come into today’s lexicon because of years of effort from Keppe and his team, who work tirelessly to
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The Science of Real Problem Solving

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and welcome to another episode of Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Read the literature about complex problem solving and you're in for a challenging read. System structure and dynamics, facets of intelligence, positive and negative dependencies. It's mind-numbing stuff that seeks to concretize often abstract what if scenarios so popular in
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The Sanity of Interiorizing our Lives

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Carl Gustav Jung proposed that everything that irritates us about others can lead us to understand ourselves. For him, others were a giant mirror into our own psyches. The great German writer, Hermann Hesse, suggested that disliking something in another is disliking something that we have, too. Freud,
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Our Inverted Contra Ego

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
I'm Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. It was part of the psychic apparatus defined in Freud's Structural Model of the Psyche. Its role was to mediate between the desires of our uncoordinated instinctual tendencies - the ID - and our critical moralizing part called the Super-Ego. For Freud, our
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Eliminating Faith and Truth: The Failure of Psychological Science

In Thinking with Somebody Else's Head
“Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. Bribery and corruption are common and there are signs the world is speedily coming to an end.” The latest doomsday prognostication from the Mayans? Not exactly. A statement allegedly lifted from an Assyrian tablet dated 2800 B.C. It’s clear mankind has been on the wrong path for
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