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How to Cope With Cheating Girlfriend
Have You Been Cheated On
A little murdurous compilation I made using film footage from Beware (2011), Guy loses his job and boozes it up at a local, then heads home to catch his wife with her lover, and when she gets ballsy and reveals that he has fathered an illegitimate child, he reacts as he should in a world of better laws.
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychology. Show all posts
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Prison storytelling, subcultural anthropology, and the allure of darkness.
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For 33 years, Baldayev used his exclusive access to and rapport with the prisoners to hand-illustrate and capture in artful photographs more than 3,600 inmate tattoos — as admirable a feat artistically as it was sociologically.
In 2003, when he was in his late 70's, Baldayev began releasing his magnificent archive as a series of books revealing a rich and eerie intersection of art and violence.
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volumes I, II and III offer not only a visceral record of this intersection, but also Baldayev’s aambitious effort to, through text and illustrations, parse the meaning of these tattoos and place them in the context of this fiercely self-contained subculture. (Or, as it were, institution-contained as well.)
Perhaps even more striking than the body art itself is how Baldayev was able to talk some of Russia’s most dangerous convicts into posing for such intimate and often vulnerable portraits.
For a related glimpse of this darkly enigmatic world, the excellent Oscar-nominated 2007 film Eastern Promises about the Russian mob in London, starring Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen, offers an intriguing look at tattoos as storytelling, a narrative through which prisoners told their life stories and conveyed their credos.
Thanks, Greg
Each of the volumes is an absolute masterpiece and a fascinating slice of (sub)cultural anthropology. It’s the kind of thing that adds instant conversation potential to any home library or coffee table, and guaranteed you’re-cooler-than-my-other-friends gifting recognition.
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The Mindful Self-Express
The mind-body experiment
The Six Best Ways to Decrease Your Anxiety
Use research-based coping strategies to overcome your fears
Calming the mind
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Techniques to achieve inner peace of mind
Anxiety makes us feel threat is imminent yet most of the time what we worry about never happens. By recording our worries and how many came true, we can notice how much we overestimate the prospect of negative events.
(2) Decatastrophizing
Even if a bad event happened, we may still be able to handle it by using our coping skills and problem-solving abilities or by enlisting others to help. Although not pleasant, we could still survive encountering a spider, having a panic attack, or losing money. It's important to realize that very few things are the end of the world.
(3) Using deep breathing and relaxation to calm down
By deliberately relaxing our muscles we begin to calm down so we can think clearly. If you practice this without a threat present at first, it can start to become automic and will be easier to use in the moment when you face a threat. Deep breathing engages the parasympathetic nervous system to put the brakes on sympathetic arousal.
(4) Becoming mindful of our own physical and mental reactions
The skill of mindfulness involves calmly observing our own reactions, including fear, without panic or feeling compelled to act. It is something that can be taught in therapy and improves with practice.
(5) Accepting the Fear and Committing to Living a Life Based on Core Values
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an approach that encourages people to accept the inevitability of negative thoughts and feelings and not try to repress or control them. By directing attention away from the fear and back onto life tasks and valued goals, we can live a full life despite the fear.
Soothing & healing strategies for your mind
Exposure is the most powerful technique for anxiety and it involves facing what we fear and staying in the situation long enough for the fear to habituate or go down, as it naturally does. Fear makes us avoid or run away, so our minds and bodies never learn that much of what we fear is not truly dangerous.
I use these techniques regularly in my clinical practice in Mill Valley, CA 94941.
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Vlastík Plamínek: Czech Television Psychic - What a fucking nutcase !! - Je Mák / Jsem Mák
This guy is a fucking nutjob psychic on czech television:
Vlastík Plamínek
Vlastík Plamínek je nejslavnější český věštec, šarlatán a léčitel.
His Trademark "Mamp, je Mamp Mamp"
Vlastík Plamínek Je Mák
Vlastík Plamínek ÚÚÚ Daba
Vlastík Plamínek - Jé, jé... Vrr, haf, haf!
Proč Mě Svěděj Koule Bude Vás Svědět i Prdel!
Kompletně Najebaný Vlastík Plamínek Solí Nálož Královských Velehoven
EZO.TV - Vlastík Padaj Na Mě Sračky Shůry Já Tu Sbírám Hoven Fůry Mimozemské Garniprůjmy
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Saturday, July 09, 2011
Why High-Functioning Alcoholics Need Help
What is the problem with being a high-functioning alcoholic? This is a question that has been posed several times to me and has probably crossed the minds of others. Although the term "high-functioning" has a positive connotation, the reality is that the diagnosis of "alcoholic" is also present. High-functioning alcoholics (HFAs) have the disease of alcoholism-which is lifelong, chronic, progressive, and potentially fatal.
The fact that HFAs may be succeeding professionally or academically does not negate that they are alcoholic and need to get help. Similarly, if a person was diagnosed with Diabetes 1 but appears to be managing their life well and looks healthy that does not mean that they should not take their insulin or seek medical treatment.
A large part of why HFAs continue drinking alcoholically without interventions from loved ones or colleagues is due to of the power of denial. This denial can manifest in many ways including thoughts such as: "I have a great job, pay my bills and have lots of friends, therefore I am not an alcoholic," "I am doing really well academically and am involved in so many activities, I cannot be an alcoholic," "I am wealthy and drink expensive wine, I could not possibly be an alcoholic," "I have not hit a ‘bottom', so I cannot be an alcoholic," "Everyone at work drinks like me, so I am not an alcoholic," and many more. Societal stereotypes of the "typical" alcoholic can also contribute to HFAs minimizing their own problem.
Although HFAs may project a well put-together façade, they can still be placing themselves in danger in many ways including but not limited to: drinking and driving, having risky sexual encounters, blacking out, damaging their reputation, etc. They may have been able to avoid serious trouble professionally or personally to a certain degree however, it will be only a matter of time before their "luck" runs out and their alcoholism will lead to problems. HFAs are also placing their own health at risk as well as the emotional health of their family because they are not seeking assistance.
HFAs are essentially "masters of disguise" who not only fool those around them but also themselves. This does not detract from the fact that they are alcoholics who need help in getting sober just as much as lower functioning alcoholics.
More information on this topic is available in my new book: Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic: Professional Views and Personal Insights.
Friday, July 08, 2011
How to Be a Serial Killer (2008) Review
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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008): Reviewed by Stuart Conover
While not the first movie to do so- How to Be a Serial Killer, directed and written by Luke Ricci, takes another look at a horror documentary styled film. Playing off the concept that what you are seeing is made to be viewed by an actual audience as if it were real and not just a movie. The slight twist on this concept that’s run with throughout the film though is that it is stylized to be a late night Infomercial. They appear to be trying to sell you on both the lifestyle and buying a video or training course on how to be a serial killer AND why it’s good for you. If you have ever seen the movie “Thank You For Smoking” and appreciated it, this should provide you the same kind of humor.
The tale begins by showing a regular video rental store clerk named Bart (Matthew Gray Gubler) who is dealing with a customer that is nothing short but an asshole towards him. While this is going we pan over to see Mike (Dameon Clarke) who is watching this interaction and quickly cut to his infomercial showing off that learning to be a serial killer can bring you to new heights of self esteem, greatness, and attempts to show you that everyone is doing it. While Mike watches the interaction between Bart and the customer unfold he quickly swoops in for the kill. At first it is figuratively as he sells Bart on the idea of being able to take a life into his own hand and soon it is demonstrated as literally as he kills the customer. From this point on it quickly develops into a friendship that is based on Mike’s outgoing dominant personality convincing Bart’s submissive personality to follow his lead.
This friendship lasts through the film as Mike teaches Bart how to live as he does. The teaching becomes an obsession for Mike that starts to hamper the facade of normality that he has developed from his girlfriend to his job. The walls he has put in place to hide the monster that he is start to slip as he appears to grow more open and less careful with his killing. The entire time he becomes more obsessed with his own darker side he is trying to turn Bart into being exactly what he is. He finally has someone he can be open with and it pleases him to no end.
The entire film jumps between the dark humor of Mike’s infomercial and the reality of what he is actually doing. It quickly shows though that he lives by a code of rules to both keep himself safe and ‘moral’ in who he kills. Yes any fan of the show Dexter will quickly be making a comparison of using the idea of a serial killer with a code for both keeping himself safe and moral, even so with the commercial feel it plays out with some originality to it. This movie unfortunately suffers from coming out when Dexter is so popular as to easily overshadow the original concepts that it has.
The infomercial shots are what end up embodying how Mike feels his actions should be carried out, even when the rules don’t agree with he is preaching to Bart. While he shows off all of the ways in his rules that you can kill someone, and in action actually kills people in a multitude of ways, he tells Bart that if he wants to stand out he needs a signature. It is the signature that will let him leave a mark ont he world and Mike does not have a signature he follows through with in every kill. There is no underlying method to his madness.
The overall verdict? How to Be a Serial Killer is a mix of seriousness and fun. At parts of the movie it can’t seem to decide which way to lean which causes the pacing to be slightly off. For the most part though it’s a fun watch if your looking for an entertaining satire of a serial killer mover or documentary. With it’s infomercial styled pitch it is hard pressed to call this one a true mockumentary but that is the closest description that can be made. It’s a fun watch, worth a rent at the very least.
Serial Killers Effect: Serial Killer Profiling
Serial Killer Profiling
 Francis Miller/Time & Life Pictures/ Getty Images Ed Gein, the inspiration for the Buffalo Bill character in "The Silence of the Lambs" |
Determining the signature and the MO are both aspects of profiling. TheFBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit developed the process of profiling in the 1970s, and Ted Bundy was one of the first serial killers to be profiled. Studies by psychologists and psychiatrists and information gleaned from past serial murders go into the creation of the profile, along with crime-scene information and witness statements. For example, if the victim is Caucasian, the killer is probably Caucasian. If the crime scene shows evidence of careful planning, the killer is likely to be intelligent and older. If the victim was mutilated in a very disorganized way, her killer is probablyschizophrenic, and schizophrenics are more likely to be very thin and unkempt [source: Vronsky].
Profiles are not 100 percent accurate, but they're usually found to be very close. According to Robert Keppell, the detective who took Bundy's confession, the profile assembled for Bundy's crimes was perfect, "even to the point where they predicted he'd have a step-brother and that's what he had" [source: Bellamy].
Once the profile is completed, investigators can look at the existing list of suspects and determine which are most likely to have committed the crime and determine how best to capture him. Some organized serial killers, such as Dennis Rader (the BTK Killer), feel the need to taunt the police, which sometimes leads to their arrest. Rader sent police a floppy disk containing metadata that was traced to his church. Many serial killers, even those who are incredibly organized and methodical, slip up in some way that leads to their arrest. In the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, a potential victim escaped and led police to Dahmer's apartment. Some of John Wayne Gacy's victims had worked for his construction business.
Serial Killers in Pop Culture One of the first films to feature a serial killer was the 1960 Hitchcock thriller "Psycho," based on Robert Bloch's book of the same name and inspired by real-life killer Ed Gein. Gein also inspired the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and the character of Buffalo Bill in "The Silence of the Lambs." The latter film also made the public aware of the FBI's profiling and ViCAP system. There are numerous true crime books, novels,films and TV shows devoted to the phenomenon. But why are they so popular? Perhaps people are fascinated simply because what serial killers do is so horrifying. They enjoy the fear that comes with serial killer films and books. Some people take this fascination a step further. Until recently, a search on eBay for "serial killer memorabilia" turned up personal items of convicted serial killers, including clothing, paintings and letters. EBay banned the sale of these and other "murderabilia" items after protests by victims' rights groups. One Web site sells serial killer action figures, calendars and trading cards. |
But not all serial killers are caught. Some are arrested or picked up for other crimes, and evidence leads investigators to their murders. Ted Bundy was caught at a routine traffic stop, while David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam," was initially picked up for loitering and was thought to be a witness to the crimes instead of the killer.
Once convicted, most serial killers either spend their lives in prison or are executed if the death penalty exists in their state. Ed Gein is one exception. At first found incompetent to stand trial, Gein was sent to a mental institution. Later his psychiatrist determined that he was competent, and a judge found him not guilty by reason if insanity. Gein died in 1984 of heart failure.
Most researchers agree that there is no way to "cure" a serial killer. Some serial killers who spent time in mental institutions after committing their crimes or received psychiatric treatment were deemed "cured" and released. But they went on to kill again. Peter Woodcock spent 35 years in a criminal psychiatric hospital inOntario, Canada, after murdering three children. Within a few hours of his release, he killed a fellow psychiatric patient and was immediately sent back to the institution.
Until we know more about how to stop serial killers before they start to kill or refine ways of capturing them before they continue the cycle of murder, they will continue to be as much a part of reality as murder itself.
For lots more information about serial killers and related topics, check out the links on the next page.
Serial Killers Effect: Catching a Serial Killer
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Investigators search for the remains of a victim of Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer.
A serial killer keeps killing until one of four things happens: he is caught, he dies, he kills himself or he burns out. Obviously once law enforcement determines that a string of murders can be attributed to one person, the goal is to catch him as soon as possible. But how do they figure this out? And how are serial killers caught?
In the aftermath of any homicide, investigating thecrime scene and performing anautopsy are routine steps that law enforcement takes in an attempt to solve the crime. Once all of this information has been collected, it can be entered into a nationwide database run by the FBI, as part of ViCAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program). This program can help to determine patterns, or signatures, that link separate homicides.
According to FBI profiler John Douglas, a signature "is a ritual, something the subject does intentionally for emotional satisfaction -- something that isn't necessary to perpetuate the crime” [source: JohnDouglas.com]. Some serial killers pose their victims in a certain way or leave them in a certain place after killing them. Another signature might be a method of torture or mutilation. It's what the killer does to fulfill his fantasies, and it can tell investigators a lot about his personality.
Investigators also look at the MO, or modus operandi, of the crime. The MO reflects what the killer had to do to commit the crime. This includes everything from luring and restraining his victim to the way that he actually murders her. A serial killer's MO can change over time. Essentially, he learns from past mistakes and improves with time.
For other uses, see Modus operandi (disambiguation).
Modus operandi (plural modi operandi) is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as "mode of operating".[1] The term is used to describe someone's habits or manner of working, their method of operating or functioning. In English, it is frequently shortened to M.O.
Serial Killers Effect: Serial Killer Sanity
For some people, the only way to explain serial murder is to say that serial killers are "insane." Some serial killers do plead "not guilty by reason of insanity" as a defense, but are all of them "insane" or even mentally ill? According to the U.S. Code, an insanity defense means that "at the time of the commission of the acts constituting the offense, the defendant, as a result of a severe mental disease or defect, was unable to appreciate the nature and quality or the wrongfulness of his acts. Mental disease or defect does not otherwise constitute a defense" [Source: U.S. Code].Basically, a serial killer arguing "not guilty by reason of insanity" must prove that he did not understand right from wrong at the time that he killed. But it can be difficult to prove that he really did not understand that his actions would result in the death of the victims. Only two serial killers have successfully pled insanity. John Douglas, long-term head of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, believes that serial killers "don't have a problem understanding what death means, and that they have the power to kill" [source: JohnDouglas.com].
Some serial killers have been diagnosed by psychologists and psychiatrists as psychopaths. The official term in the Diagnostic and Standard Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) is antisocial personality disorder (APD). According to the DSM-IV, a person with APD follows a pattern of "disregard and violation of the rights of others occuring since age 15 years." This pattern includes seven factors (three of which must be met for diagnosis), such as "failure to conform to social norms," "irritability and aggressiveness" and "lack of remorse" [source: Vronsky]. Psychopaths are not insane -- they do know right from wrong. But this diagnosis may explain their behavior during their killing cycles.
Brain Injury Some researchers theorize that serial killers have brain damage or other biological abnormalities that contribute to their actions. Damage to areas like the frontal lobe, the hypothalamus and the limbic system can contribute to extreme aggression, loss of control, loss of judgment and violence. Henry Lee Lucas, who was convicted of 11 murders, was shown to have extreme brain damage in these areas, probably the result of childhood abuse, malnutrition and alcoholism. Arthur Shawcross, another 11-time serial killer, was found to have had several brain injuries, including two skull fractures. While in prison, he suffered from headaches and often blacked out. Bobby Joe Long, convicted of nine murders, stated at one point, "After I'm dead, they're going to open up my head and find that just like we've been saying a part of my brain is black and dry and dead" [source: Scott].
In the next section, we'll see how law enforcement catches serial killers.
Serial Killers Effect: Serial Killer Motives
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Jeffrey Dahmer at his trial in 1991. He killed at least 17 men and boys.
One of the most studied aspects of serial murder is “why?” A number of theories have been set forth as potential explanations. But “unraveling the making of a serial killer is like aligning a Rubik's cube” [source: Vronsky]. In other words, there is no one answer. Let's take a look at three possible theories: childhood neglect and abuse, mental illness and brain injury.
Neglect and Abuse
One theory centers around the neglect and abuse that many serial killers experience as children. Robert Ressler and Tom Shachtman describe a study conducted by the FBI, which included interviews with dozens of murderers (mostly serial killers). In each case, they found “similar patterns of severe childhood neglect” [source:Ressler & Shachtman]. During a child's development, there are important periods in which he learns about love, trust, empathy and basic rules about how to interact with other human beings. If these traits aren't imprinted upon the child during that period, it may not be possible for him to learn them later in life.
One theory centers around the neglect and abuse that many serial killers experience as children. Robert Ressler and Tom Shachtman describe a study conducted by the FBI, which included interviews with dozens of murderers (mostly serial killers). In each case, they found “similar patterns of severe childhood neglect” [source:Ressler & Shachtman]. During a child's development, there are important periods in which he learns about love, trust, empathy and basic rules about how to interact with other human beings. If these traits aren't imprinted upon the child during that period, it may not be possible for him to learn them later in life.
Serial killers were often physically or sexually abused as children or witnessed the abuse of family members. This pattern of neglect and abuse, some researchers say, leads serial killers to grow up without a sense of anyone other than themselves. But at the same time, many children grow up neglected and abused, but do not become violent criminals or serial killers.
On the next page we'll learn about mental illness and brain injury in serial killers.
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