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Forget child abuse: more and more Korean children abuse their own mothers, swearing at, hitting and kicking them.

Most are boys, from preschoolers to those in fifth and sixth grades in elementary school and junior high school students. Anything can set them off, from being ordered to stop playing computer games to being told to eat. The language they use is foul, including threats to kill their mother, and some spit and even beat their mothers black and blue.

Samsung Medical Center’s child psychology unit in Seoul saw 585 of 1,010 patients over the last two months for behavioral disorders and emotional disturbance. The major reason for admission was extreme defiance of their mothers and behavioral problems.

Why do these children turn on their mothers? Experts say the phenomenon is uniquely Korean.Mothers are the victims but also the cause. What is common to children who use violence against their mothers is excessive intervention by the mother in the life of their children.

“Children who beat their mother in most cases come from families where the relationship between mother and father is closed,” psychiatrist Park Jin-saeng said. “When the father is the sole breadwinner and the mother is completely in charge of taking care of and educating the child, the mother often tends to control her child’s everyday affairs, starting from study to friends and even the color of socks he or she wears.”

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For decades, religion and psychotherapy – like oil and water – did not mix. Clinical psychologists kept spirituality and religion out of their practice, while some religious people looked askance at psychotherapy.

Not anymore.

Mental health professionals and religious workers are breaking out of their traditional ways to adopt holistic approaches – looking to see what they can learn, unlearn and cull from one another to better serve people who come to them for help. Also evident is mutual respect.

At the third national conference on spirituality and mental health, sponsored by Pasadena-based Pacific Clinics 400 people in caring professions and ministries spent a day together to talk about the importance of spirituality and religion in mental health.

In one well-attended session, the Rev. Siang-Yang Tan, a professor of psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, talked about spiritually oriented psychotherapy.

Whatever spiritual intervention that therapists might choose – Scriptures, prayer or silence – must be relevant to the disorder under treatment, said Tan, a clinical psychologist and senior pastor of First Evangelical Church in Glendale. ‘We have to be careful, because religious and spiritual interventions can be misused or abused,’ he said. ‘You have to use it carefully, ethically, professionally and gently.’

He also spoke of the new movement called positive psychology, being developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. Its direction is toward the ‘positive sides of human experiences,’ emphasizing virtues, character strengths and learning to be grateful, he said. More about the conference here.

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There’s nothing like a good 40-hour a week job to stifle creativity. Creativity needs room to flow and seep into the many folds of your brain matter, flowing in circles and inlets of energy but never quite regimented into a set path or a daily grind.

Inspiration and creativity go hand in hand. Without inspiration, there is little creativity. But, where does inspiration come from? Dare we suggest that inspiration comes from that place beyond our conscious ego, what transpersonal psychologists refer to as the transpersonal self?

How does one coax the transpersonal self to make an appearance and lubricate our creative joy back into physical reality? Is it true that in order to be creative we must embrace messiness and chaos in our lives? Or is there some orderliness we can obtain that implies creativity and a union of the subconscious with the conscious drive of man in physical reality?

One could be surprised how rituals and routines influence our daily lives. Find more on creativity and rituals.

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