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Amy Jones 9/7/11 Amy Jones 9/7/11

misophonia: extreme involuntary stress reaction to the sound of another eating, coughing, breathing. or other ordinary sounds 
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Amy Jones 9/7/11 Amy Jones 9/7/11

the blurring line between work and pleasure: more thoughts about vacation in the nyt
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Amy Jones 9/6/11 Amy Jones 9/6/11

“ I’m afraid the novelist J.M. Coetzee was at least partially right: ‘Always move towards pain when making art.’”
Jonah Lehrer in his surprising exploration of anger and creativity in wired
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Amy Jones 9/5/11 Amy Jones 9/5/11

anxiety, gothic literature, and tabloid tragedy in the nyt
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Amy Jones 9/5/11 Amy Jones 9/5/11

slate interviews author of controversial new book on erotic capital and gender
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Amy Jones 9/2/11 Amy Jones 9/2/11

The more choices you make throughout the day, the harder each one becomes for your brain, and eventually it looks for shortcuts, usually in either of two very different ways. One shortcut is to become reckless: to act impulsively instead of expendin…
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Amy Jones 9/2/11 Amy Jones 9/2/11

the dangers of bitterness and how to avoid them in The Atlantic
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Amy Jones 8/22/11 Amy Jones 8/22/11

sex, smell, and the pheromone myth in slate
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Amy Jones 8/22/11 Amy Jones 8/22/11

“Basically, poets who eventually commit suicide use I-words more than non-suicidal poets.”

our ability to shift perspective reflected in our use of pronouns is correlated with our mental health in Scientific American
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Amy Jones 8/14/11 Amy Jones 8/14/11

Jonah Lehrer interviews Davi Johnson Thornton on her new book Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Popular Media

“All of the time you have to constantly think “How is this affecting my brain? What is this going to do to my brain, and hence my futu…
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Amy Jones 8/14/11 Amy Jones 8/14/11

do you still want to write that novel? 1) be nice to yourself   2) read everything
photo: drew woods
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Amy Jones 8/14/11 Amy Jones 8/14/11

are primates altruistic?: hints on why we help
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Amy Jones 8/14/11 Amy Jones 8/14/11

you can start blaming yourself again: rethinking social contagion theory
photo: stephen beadles
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Amy Jones 8/14/11 Amy Jones 8/14/11

the neuroscience of “tanorexia” in the nyt
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Amy Jones 8/2/11 Amy Jones 8/2/11

september 11th studies give rise to humility and reassessment in trauma treatment
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Amy Jones 8/2/11 Amy Jones 8/2/11

play therapy pioneer hanna segal dies at 92
on psychoanalysis:“ and while all science aims at truth, psychoanalysis is unique in recognising that the search for truth is, in itself, therapeutic.”
image from film Ponette (1996)
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Amy Jones 8/2/11 Amy Jones 8/2/11

an essay on the unpredictability of drug addiction in the nyt
juergen teller (photo)
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Amy Jones 8/2/11 Amy Jones 8/2/11

if mothers dress like teenage daughters, and daughters dress like celebrities….?
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Amy Jones 7/29/11 Amy Jones 7/29/11

nyt book review: freud and cocaine
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Amy Jones 7/29/11 Amy Jones 7/29/11

the politics of introversion in the atlantic
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