Anna Raeburn recalls that in the 1970s, a disease called kwashiorkor was prevalent in Biafra. 'All the children were malnourished, because they weren't getting any protein, but their mothers didn't realise that was the problem, and they couldn't have got hold of protein anyway, so they kept feeding them starch. The children remained stick-thin and hopelessly malnourished, but with distended bellies. Modern life is like that: we keep feeding ourselves the wrong things for happiness.
Of all the things companies worry about when selling food products, catching "cooties" is probably not high on the list. But new research suggests it should be. Products such as lard and feminine napkins evoke feelings of disgust that can reduce the ap
New York was cold and bright in a way that made the gases waltz in the sunlight as they escaped the sewers. I was lunching alone in a SoHo cafe. That might sound romantic, but New York always finds a way to drain the romance out of a moment: a rude str
Paul Watzlawick was an Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher. A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he has commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. He was one of the most influential figures at the Mental Research Institute and lived and worked in Palo Alto, California.
On this day in 1921, the psychotherapist, psychoanalytic, sociologist, philosopher, and author Paul Watzlawick was born. He was best known for his approaches in the field of schizophrenia and his five axiomes in the theory of communication.
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