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Abstracts: Winter Brain 2000 and
Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology Meeting
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- This is a big file. It doesnt' seem to format very well either. The best way to use it is to right click
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- I suggest you make several columns on the page. Then you'll be able to print it out without
- using half a forest worth of paper. Rob Kall, meeting founder/organizer
- Three Year Violence Study Follow-up
- Alfonso Bermea
- WS2 Neurofeedback And Working With Violence
- Alfonso Bermea
- Reward Deficiency Syndrome and ADD
- Ken Blum
- WS2 Reward Deficiency Syndrome
- Ken Blum
- Panel: Finding Strengths where Pathology is Labeled
- Ken Blum, Rob Kall, Thom Hartmann, others
- As the DSM4, by combining more and more behavior profiles, creates a growing number of diagnosticc categories,
- the percentage of the population NOT diagnosable is dwindling-- to less than 15% by some estimates.
- This panel will explore the strengths,assets and societal benefits found in some of "disorders" and "pathologies."
- The quotes below are exampes of a way of reframing diagnosed pathologies as assets or differences which people can use to live more comfortably or even happily with these diagnoses.
- "There are faults so closely allied to certain good qualities that they announce their presence, and of such we do well not to cure ourselves."
- Joubert, Joseph, Pensees, Titre 5
- "Best men are moulded out of faults."
- Shakespeare
- I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God.
- Helen Keller
- "Tis to my faults that I, my virtues owe."
- LaFare, Marquis De
- The greatest works of the human mind are very certainly the least perfect.
- Vauvenargues
- Still here I carry my old delicious burdens;
- I carry them, men and women-- I carry them with me wherever I go;
- I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them;
- I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return.)
- Whitman, Walt, Song of The Open Road
- We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
- Pierre Corneille
- Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
- William Blake
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- Advances In The Period 3 Approach: Changing Perspectives And Navigating the NeuroCare Matrix
