Creativity and Spontaneity in the Classroom
social dance, choreography, music, invention, spontaneity, creativity, art, expression, life, performance, lively, chance, idea, stanford, north and south, steps
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3.2 Using mental images
The most ‘important and greatest puzzle’ we face as humans is ourselves (Boring, 1950, p. 56). Humans are a puzzle – one that is complex, subtle and multi-layered, and it gets even more complicated as we evolve over time and change in different contexts.
When answering the question ‘What makes us who we are?’, psychologists put forward a range of explanations about why people feel, think and behave the way they do. Just when psychologists seem to understand one bit of ‘who we are’
Author(s): The Open University
2 The Turner Prize: an annual farce or a celebration of creativity?
In this unit you’ll explore art history. Look around you, it’s likely that wherever you are you’ll be able to see some images, it’s also likely that many of these image will be intended to have some sort of effect on you. Here you will be exploring the power of images via a study of contemporary art from the 1980s onwards. Taking the time to look beyond the immediate appearance of an art work to consider what the artist might be trying to say can be immensely rewarding.
Author(s): The Open University
5.3 Freedom from our mental limitations: simulation models
Section 5 Readings – Complexity and chaos
5.3 Freedom from our mental limitations: simulation models
We have been increasingly liberated from our cognitive limitations thanks to innovations in information and communication technologies. The first symbolic representations painted on cave walls gradually evolved into writing, and this form of recording, storing and sharing information became accessible to everyone who could read
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1.7 The limits of mental modelling
Section 1 Readings– Thinking styles and models
1.7 The limits of mental modelling
We are constantly reminded in the media how intellectually and emotionally ‘superior’ we are to other species on Earth. The locus of this superiority is apparently our brains. By the time our species reaches adulthood, our ratio of brain size to body size (the ‘encephalisation quotient’) is three times greater than our closest relatives, the pri
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Episode 54: Adolescents and Mental Illness
Psychiatrist Prof Patrick McGorry discusses how evolving treatment modalities can address disturbing trends of increased mental illness in young adults and adolescents. With host Jacky Angus.
Guest
Professor Patrick McGorr
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10 White Paper: Mental Health Reform
The 10th Maudsley Debate was held on Thursday July 5th on the topic of mental health law reform. A lively audience of service users, psychiatrists, and health care professionals including the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists attended the debate, which was chaired by Professor Tom Fahy. Before hearing the arguments of the speakers only 2% of the audience supported the motion and the implementation of the Government White Paper on Mental Health with 61% opposed and a substantial 37%
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13 Method in Their Madness or Madness in Their Method?
13th Maudsley Debate
'Method in Their Madness or Madness in Their Method?'
This house believes that the public's reaction to terrorism is more irrational than the terrorists' motivation and behaviour
Date: 23 January 2002 18:00
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20 Crime and illness: the thin blue line
20th Maudsley Debate
Crime and illness: the thin blue line?
This house believes that criminals need treatment not punishment
Proposing the motion:Prof. John Gunn, Forensic Psychiatry, IOP and Prof. Christopher Cordess, Forensic Psychiatry, University of Sheffield.
Opposing the motion: BRENDAN O'NEILL - Assistant Editor, SPIKED PHILIP BEAN - Director, Midlands Centre for Criminology and Criminal Justice
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23 Are men bad for women's mental health
Feelings ran high at this debate touching on gender issues within psychiatric services. The audience started the evening strongly behind the motion supporting gender-segregated in-patient services but with a number of voters waiting to be persuaded.
The proposers of the motion centred their arguments on issues of women’s safety and were opposed by a counter-attack emphasising the importance of patient choice. We heard several women service users give heartfelt testimony to their experience of
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A Mental Switch
How to get into the writing 'zone'. How do you translate the desire to write into the will to write?
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