by Anne Skyvington | Jan 9, 2023 | Psychology, Writing Topics
Extreme Fear in the Time of Covid The only thing we have to fear is fear itself! The above quotation from an American Second World War time president has become part of history: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. When someone sneezes in America, the whole...
by Anne Skyvington | Dec 31, 2022 | Psychology, Writing Topics
And suffered intense pain and a nervous breakdown as a result of my choices I was in my early thirties when I first started looking inward, which I conceived as a descent into the unconscious mind, as popularized by Sigmund Freud and his form of psychoanalysis. Later...
by Anne Skyvington | Dec 2, 2022 | Psychology, Writing Topics
I’ve only just started to realise that the cold can be therapeutic. It’s not for everyone, I know. But why don’t you try it out? Wim Hof, from the Netherlands, is called the “Ice Man”. He has been known to climb freezing mountains in his shorts and...
by Anne Skyvington | Jul 10, 2022 | Psychology, Writing Topics
Ways of Facing Fear Fear, like pain, is often a good thing. It’s normal to be afraid of dangerous creatures, such as funnel web spiders. It’s only when fear is out of proportion, and gets in the way of life and living, that it becomes a negative emotion....
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 19, 2019 | Psychology, Writing Topics
Do you ever wake up with a song playing in your head? With lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, this one, I discovered, was originally recorded as a demo for Dionne Warwick in 1963, and first charted for Lou Johnson in the summer of 1964. And then, in the early...
by Anne Skyvington | Jun 20, 2018 | Psychology, Writing Topics
Psychology is a relatively recent area of research and treatment for “inner” emotional problems, with Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) creating his famous brand of psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. William James (1842-1910) is...
