Way To Go, Godot!

I’m pulling back the curtain on the brand new psychology community site that I’ve been working really hard to put together. You can find it here: Chicago Psychology.

The idea is to provide a place for mental health professionals and psychology researchers to:

1. Promote their practices and promote themselves to potential employers
2. Share information about new research and clinical insights
3. Network with like-minded psychology professionals in order to build up a good professional reputation and get good jobs

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In my recent article on hypnosis, I mentioned fairly casually that we don’t live in the present moment. We live in memories and dreams.

This is an idea that will not be unfamiliar to those with a mystic bent, but the rest of you may suspect that there is some craziness going on here. In fact, there is! But it is a craziness that is supported by a lot of very good neurological and psychological research.

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People communicate with each other constantly, and in ways we hardly ever even realize. You heard that right: even a truly prolific writer is unlikely to ever match in written words the sheer volume of information that is constantly transmitted to the people around them, in the form of body language, expressions, small gestures, barely detectable fluctuations in muscle tone, in vocal cadence. Beyond these measurable types of physical communication, there’s another level of communication buried under and between the language itself. It occurs just as automatically as body language and just as pervasively. And, like body language, we usually don’t even realize we’re doing it.

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