psychology – Page 2 – Alan Conrad

3 Aug 20224 Aug 2022 Alan Conrad autism, loners, psychology, Rescuing Reality, rescuing shyness, Shyness, The social world

Autism | Do you sometimes feel like a fish out-of-water? | Maybe you’re just a fish in the wrong pond, or maybe……….

I hope you'll see that you too are free to think your way forward to a rewarding path that is uniquely your own.

21 Jul 202221 Jul 2022 Alan Conrad autism, mental health, psychology, Science

Autism | Science Daily | Brains of children with autism may not always ‘see’ body language

This looks to me like a sign that science is catching up to the reality of autism.

31 May 2022 Alan Conrad autism, loners, psychology, Rescuing Nature, Rescuing Reality, Science

Autism | Were early humans autistic?

Do you ever wonder why ancient humans spread over most of the planet? It was a very unusual thing to do. The only other large land mammal that has come close is the wolf, and they never managed to get to South America or Africa. Yet by at least 13,000 years ago, humans were on … Continue reading Autism | Were early humans autistic?

19 May 202219 May 2022 Alan Conrad psychology, Rescuing History, Rescuing Psychology, Rescuing Reality, Rescuing the Future

Rescuing Psychology | C. G. Jung (and me) vs the Jungians

The trouble started with a discussion of the word 'numinous'.

8 May 20228 May 2022 Alan Conrad autism, psychology, The social world

Autism | Why do they sometimes admire us?

But here is the question – why do social people, whose whole world seems to be built around play-acting with each other, admire someone who can't do that?

23 Apr 202224 Apr 2022 Alan Conrad autism, loners, mental health, psychology, Science, science fiction

Autism | Isaac Asimov and the joys of autism

.....But Asimov wasn’t like that in spite of an autistic nature. No, he was happy because of his autistic nature.

15 Apr 2022 Alan Conrad autism, Book Reviews, psychology, Rescuing Fiction, The social world

Rescuing Fiction | George Eliot and Daniel Deronda | an autistic critique of the great psychological novel

If I was asked to choose the ten greatest scenes in literature, this one would be near the top.

25 Mar 202225 Mar 2022 Alan Conrad introverts, psychology, Rescuing Psychology, Rescuing Reality, rescuing shyness, The social world

Rescuing psychology | The Big Five Personality Traits | Shouldn’t it be the Big Ten?

Let's look at the enigmatic “Big Five Personality Traits" again. They aren't new. The idea began in United States Air Force in the 1950s, then psychologist J.M. Digman proposed the "five factor model" of personality in 1990. Human resource departments in large corporations have been using it for a long time to assess potential employees. … Continue reading Rescuing psychology | The Big Five Personality Traits | Shouldn’t it be the Big Ten?

11 Feb 202212 Feb 2022 Alan Conrad psychology, Rescuing Reality, Rescuing the Future, Science

Rescuing Reality and the Future | Highly sensitive people in an insensitive world | and where does autism fit in?

I believe in aristocracy though.... Not an aristocracy of power... but of the sensitive, the considerate. …