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Abdul Rahim Halimyar, 48, runs the only psychology clinic in Kandahar. He sits in a barren room with concrete walls and listens to the noises wafting up from the ancient bazaar at the heart of the city.

He hears terrible stories from the people who climb the narrow staircase to his office. The market is quieter these days, as people flee the fighting in southern Afghanistan, and nearly every visitor to Dr. Halimyar’s clinic is suffering the effects of the renewed war.

Many of his visitors say they don’t understand why they feel anxious or depressed. But the reasons emerge as they describe how their lives have been destroyed by this year’s rising insurgency: dead relatives, smashed homes, harrowing escapes.

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Key words
Anglican Empiricism, Tabula rasa, Ideas, Sensation, Qualities, Reflection, Reason, Knowledge

Key terms in British Empiricism
Ideas: objects of human understanding.
Sensation: experience that causes ideas of qualities.
Qualities: the powers in things to create sensation.
Reflection: experience of our own thought processes.
Reason: that which processes the ideas of experience.
Knowledge: the perception of the consonance and dissonance between our ideas

Historical background
John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century. With the defeat and death of Charles I, there began a great experiment in governmental institutions including the abolishment of the monarchy, the House of Lords and the Anglican church, and the establishment of Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate in the 1650s.

The collapse of the Protectorate after the death of Cromwell was followed by the Restoration of Charles II — the return of the monarchy, the House of Lords and the Anglican Church. This period lasted from 1660 to 1688. It was marked by continued conflicts between King and Parliament and debates over religious toleration for Protestant dissenters and Catholics.

This period ends with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in which James II was driven from England and replaced by William of Orange and his wife Mary. The final period during which Locke lived involved the consolidation of power by William and Mary, and the beginning of William’s efforts to oppose the domination of Europe by the France of Louis XIV, which later culminated in the military victories of John Churchill — the Duke of Marlborough.

Key words
Anglican Empiricism, Tabula rasa, Ideas, Sensation, Qualities, Reflection, Reason, Knowledge

Key words
Anglican Empiricism, Tabula rasa, Ideas, Sensation, Qualities, Reflection, Reason, Knowledge

Life
John Locke was born in Wrington, Somerset in 1632, the son of a country lawyer who served as a Captain of Horse in the Parliamentary army; both his parents died when he was young.

He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, and elected to a Studentship in 1659. He went on to study medicine, finally receiving a degree in 1674. He wasn’t, however, qualified to practise as a doctor, though he did so informally.

This thing however changed his life, for he operated successfully on Lord Shaftesbury, whose household he joined as advisor, medic, and friend. Shaftesbury, an influential politician, was able to put various government appointments Locke’s way.

However, Shaftesbury fell from favour, and Locke not only lost a powerful patron, but felt threatened enough to leave England for France. His anti-Royalist views certainly made him unpopular in some quarters, and his prudence was probably well founded.

Locke later left for the Netherlands, where he lived for five years, before finally returning to England on the accession of William and Mary. It was during his stay in the Netherlands that he wrote the Letter on Tolerance, and finished his two most important works, both published in 1690 after his return to England: An Essay on Human Understanding and Two Treatises on Government.

The new regime in England honoured Locke with various government posts. He settled at Oates in Essex, at the house of Damaris Masham, where he died in 1704 at the age of seventy-two, possibly as the result of a tiring journey made to London at the behest of King William.

Writings
Fundamental Constitution for the Government of Carolina, 1669.
A Letter Concerning Toleration, 1689.
Treatise on Civil Government, 1690.
Concerning Civil Government: Second Essay, 1690. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690. Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and Raising the Value of Money , 1692 Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money, 1695.
Short Observations on a Printed Paper, 1695.
Reasonableness of Christianity, 1695

Key words
Anglican Empiricism, Tabula rasa, Ideas, Sensation, Qualities, Reflection, Reason, Knowledge

True or False? The only career option for a scientifically-trained psychologist is a faculty position in a college or university.

The answer is a resounding False!

In response to the concerns of many psychology graduate students about the lack information on careers outside of the university setting, we began inviting scientific psychologists with traditional training to tell us about their work in some relatively non-traditional places.

The Interesting Careers in Psychology series is a relatively small sampling of an infinite number of non-academic careers that are possible–those who have “taken a different path” relate their own experiences of how they got to where they are now and the valuable lessons they learned along the way to employment “beyond the lab.”

The following Interesting Careers in Psychology articles illustrate the various skill-sets and expertise that scientifically-trained psychologists possess which are also highly valued by employers outside of academe. The non-traditional career paths represented by these personal success stories illustrate the different types of unique contributions made by scientific psychologists in many different employment settings.

A new Interesting Careers article is published in almost every issue of Psychological Science Agenda (PSA) and will be posted to this site shortly after publication!

In his work, Descartes proposed a mechanism for automatic reaction in response to external events. According to his proposal, external motions affect the peripheral ends of the nerve fibrils, which in turn displace the central ends. As the central ends are displaced, the pattern of interfibrillar space is rearranged and the flow of animal spirits is thereby directed into the appropriate nerves. It was Descartes’ articulation of this mechanism for automatic, differentiated reaction that led to his generally being credited with the founding of reflex theory.
Although extended discussion of the metaphysical split between mind and body did not appear until Descartes’ Meditationes, his De homine outlined these views and provided the first articulation of the mind/body interactionism that was to elicit such pronounced reaction from later thinkers. In Descartes’ conception, the rational soul, an entity distinct from the body and making contact with the body at the pineal gland, might or might not become aware of the differential outflow of animal spirits brought about through the rearrangement of the interfibrillar spaces. When such awareness did occur, however, the result was conscious sensation — body affecting mind. In turn, in voluntary action, the soul might itself initiate a differential outflow of animal spirits. Mind, in other words, could also affect body.
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Key words: “Cogito ergo sum” “I think, therefore I am” Racionalism, Cartesian dualism, Body and Mind, Discourse on Method, Clarity and Distinctness, Religion, Science and Scepticism, Hyperbolic Doubt, Arnold Geulinex, paralelism

René Descartes (1596-1650) is one of the most important Western philosophers of the past few centuries. During his lifetime, Descartes was just as famous as an original physicist, physiologist and mathematician. But it is as a highly original philosopher that he is most frequently read today. He attempted to restart philosophy in a fresh direction. For example, his philosophy refused to accept the Aristotelian and Scholastic traditions that had dominated philosophical thought throughout the Medieval period; it attempted to fully integrate philosophy with the “new” sciences; and Descartes changed the relationship between philosophy and theology. Such new directions for philosophy made Descartes into a revolutionary figure. More here.

Key words: “Cogito ergo sum” “I think, therefore I am” Racionalism, Cartesian dualism, Body and Mind, Discourse on Method, Clarity and Distinctness, Religion, Science and Scepticism, Hyperbolic Doubt, Arnold Geulinex, paralelism

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A survey of adult survivors of childhood cancers found that more than one out of eight reported having suicidal thoughts or previous attempts to take their lives many years after they were treated, say scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The suicidal symptoms were reported by more than 12 percent — a greater proportion than had been expected — of patients seen at a clinic providing care for adult cancer survivors, the researchers write in the August 20 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Read more.

Consumer psychologist Kit Yarrow says retailers typically lower prices on school clothes and supplies early in the season and then raise them around now. And while the price of supplies will stay high from now until well after the start of the school year, clothes are going to come down again. So there’s no need to buy most or all of kids’ fall clothes now. Experts suggest 10 ways to save on back-to-school shopping: find more here.

Children can experience a soothing, painkilling effect by watching TV, say scientists from the University of Siena, Italy. 69 children, aged 7-12 had to give blood samples. They were divided into three groups. One group watched cartoons on TV, another group were distracted by their mothers, while the third group had no distractions at all. Continue.