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Previous research had already demonstrated that prolonged response times indicate that the stimulus word unconsciously troubles the patient. Sometimes, it is possible to identify a group of such words. Jung's contribution was to link these groups with the unconscious part-personalities and show how the test provides a ...
Jung was becoming quite well known, with his fame in Zürich prompting the first of several questions that subsequently came to dog his reputation. It concerns his alleged womanising.
At university, he discovered that he could sway an audience with the force of his character and ingenuity of his ideas. In Zürich, he gave public talks. "Clusters of women formed a phalanx around him before and after each of his lectures," writes Deidre Bair in her seminal biography. Then, a woman called Sabina Spielre...
After examining the evidence over several chapters, Bair concludes that it is impossible to discover the truth of what happened, though the rumours and speculation appear wildly exaggerated. After all, this was an age in which husbands and wives would greet each other with a chaste shake of the hand, even in private.
Jung had an electric personality. It is hardly surprising that such charisma was interpreted as erotically unsettlingly.
Further, the phenomenon of patients developing powerful feelings for their therapists – part of what is called transference – was then new. Freud's earliest collaborator, Josef Breuer, dropped the "talking cure" when one of his patients didn't just fall in love with him but developed a phantom pregnancy, naming him as ...
But that brings us to Jung's encounter with the founder of psychoanalysis. We will explore that transformative experience next week.
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From drugs to drink: Kombucha, a fermented health drink, is being brewed in the old Pfizer plant, where drugs like Viagra and Claritin were once made.
Tastes good, and good for you: Brett Casper has rented space in the old Pfizer plant, where he brews the fermented health drink, kombucha.
Out with the Viagra, in with the kombucha!
The old Pfizer plant, where drugs like Viagra and Claritin were once produced, is being put to new use making the fermented health-drink kombucha, and brewer Brett Casper says there’s no better spot.
Casper’s kombucha party operation isn’t the only food joint in the building — it’s not even the only kombucha brand being made there. Kombucha Brooklyn, Brooklyn Soda Works, McClure’s Pickles, Steve’s Ice Cream, and other culinary craftsmen make the old Pfizer building a veritable food factory.
Kombucha itself is a fizzy, tea-based drink, which is left to ferment under a thick layer of yeast and bacteria for two to six weeks. While the moldy bacterial culture under which the kombucha ferments is not particularly appetizing, the colorful, carbonated beverage it produces is said to be tasty and beneficial to yo...
Much of the evidence in regards to the drink’s health benefits are anecdotal, but Casper says it works for him.
To advertise his kombucha party, and raise some funds to support his kombucha brewing, Casper is hosting a series of health-themed parties at the spa, Awakening New York, where patrons can enjoy $1-per-minute massages, and a mysterious form of sound therapy invented by Buddhist monks in Tibet.
But if relaxing to the vibrations of exotic Tibetan gongs isn’t your thing, there’s always drinking — kombucha, when mixed with your liquor of choice, makes for an excellent cocktail, according to Casper.
Awakening NY Wellness Center [607 Manhattan Ave. between Driggs and Nassau avenues in Williamsburg, (718) 349–1380, kombuchapartynyc.blogspot.com]. Aug. 7, 8 pm. $20.
First of all, it's NOT GLYCOLIC acid. It's glucoronic acid. Glycolic acid is what they use as a skin exfolient for chemical skin peels. What's with all the encouraging of partying and alcohol after healthy activities in this issue? Yoga and drinking? It's sad that young people are being encouraged to drink at every opp...
Once promising prospect Michael Graves has been released from the UFC due to a violation of the promotion's code of conduct policy following his arrest on domestic violence allegations last year.
Graves was originally pulled from his fight against Sergio Moraes last year after he was arrested for battery in Atlanta last October.
On Monday, the UFC announced that following an independent investigation into the matter, the promotion has opted to release Graves from his contract effective immediately.
Graves (6-0-1) got his start in the UFC as part of "The Ultimate Fighter" cast that pit American Top Team against the Blackzilians.
Following his stint on the show, Graves won his first two fights in the UFC before going to a majority draw with Bojan Velickovic last July. His return was then stalled in October following his arrest and now he's been released from the UFC.
MANCHESTER City ­welcome Robinho back into action this weekend – with a thank-you to Brazil.
Two weeks ago it was ­daggers drawn between Mark Hughes and Brazil coach Dunga.
Now, with £32.5m record signing Robinho set for his first City action since August 27, all, it seems, is forgiven.
And first-team coach Eddie ­Niedzwiecki said: “Robi is looking really good. We were pleased, after all the speculation when he went with Brazil, that he didn’t play for them, because he wasn’t ready.
Robinho’s problems started when on international duty in September when he ­sustained an ankle stress fracture.
City boss Hughes took Robinho on a five-day training trip to Abu Dhabi on November 9, knowing he would have to let the player report to the Brazil squad in nearby Doha but expecting him to be checked by their medics and returned within 24 hours.
Instead, Robinho stayed with Brazil, amid fears he would be selected to play against either ­England or Oman.
That sparked a mini war of words between Hughes and Dunga who, effectively, told the Blues boss to keep his nose out of Brazil’s ­affairs. In the event, ­Robinho only trained with his countrymen.
And City believe they will reap the benefit against struggling Hull at Eastlands on Saturday.
Vincent Kompany and Michael Johnson are in contention for places on the bench on Saturday.
On midfielder Johnson’s return to fitness after an 18-month pelvic-injury nightmare, Niedzwiecki said: “At times, you could see it in his face that he was devastated by what had happened.
What gets you up in the morning? It’s a question that doesn’t often get asked, but asking yourself might just improve your sleep, mental health, and cognitive function for the better.
It’s well understood that knowing your values and purpose leads to improved health and longevity. A study into "Blue Zones" - communities where people are more likely to live past 100 – by journalist and author Dan Buettner, revealed that one of the main factors shared amongst centenarians is having a strong sense of p...
But having purpose can also improve your brain – without even having to making a conscious effort. According to research from Northwestern University, people who feel like they have a purpose are more likely than others to have good quality sleep.
More recently, researchers from Canada and the United States found that adults who reported a greater sense of purpose in life also tended to score higher on tests of memory and executive functioning.
On top of all of that, the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Centre in Chicago found that people with a low sense of purpose were 2.4 times more likely to get Alzheimer’s disease than those who had a strong sense of purpose.
This is all well and good but finding your life’s meaning is a heavy task to say the least. So, what can you do to find out what is important to you and what drives you in life?
If you’re not already familiar with it, the Japanese concept of Ikigai is what could help you land on your own sense of purpose.
Ikigai is often described as the Japanese secret to health and happiness. The Japanese island of Okinawa is home to the longest living people in the world, with its population containing 34 centenarians per 100,000 people. Scientists who study the Japanese island believe their sense of Ikigai is the reason why on avera...
The beauty of Ikigai is that you cannot get it wrong. The only person this has to sit well with, to align to what is important, is you.
What do you love? What are you good at? What does the world need? What can you be paid for?
Ikigai believes that combining the answers to these questions contributes to an elevated sense of self-awareness, and a more fulfilling life as a whole. Ikigai is not static but may change as you go through life, as you start relationships, move to new places, or transition through your career.
The biggest question after having defined and articulated your Ikigai is, “Do you anchor your decision making to it?” After landing on the answers required to find your Ikigai, I suggest summing up these answers into six words. No more, no less. These six words will provide you with a mantra or a motto to keep your val...
While you don’t need to find meaning in everything you do, having a greater sense of purpose will help guide you in times of adversity, or assist in making decisions when it really counts. And if you’re looking for ways to improve your body and brain, asking what really matters to you is a question worth asking.
Peta Sigley is the Chief Knowledge Officer at Springfox and a speaker, facilitator and coach on the topic of resilience.
"I'd love to host a podcast one day," Sarah says wistfully when I speak to her on the phone. She's 17, from Georgia, and just graduated high school. She's saved enough money to go traveling for a year, and plans to start college in 2019 if she can afford it.
Her parents are supportive, but they don’t understand why she would want a career in radio, which, to them, is made up of white conservative men in their 50s shouting over each other.
“They don’t understand that podcasting is different, and that someone like me — from the South, black, genderqueer — could make a career out of talking to people about my experience," explains Sarah, who asked me not to use her last name for fear it might impact her future applying for jobs and colleges.
"Someone like me — from the South, black, genderqueer — could make a career out of talking to people about my experience."
She didn't grow up listening to podcasts or public radio. She was introduced to podcasting in 2014 when she discovered Serial, and that catapulted her into the vast world of audio content. She enjoys podcasts like Two Dope Queens and Another Round, both hosted by black women, and gets extraordinarily excited when I tel...
For decades, radio has been the domain of middle-class white folks, most often of the straight male variety. While print and video media were revolutionized by the advent of blogging and vlogging in the late 2000s, and more diverse voices began to emerge, radio has taken longer to catch up.
But now that podcasts are becoming increasingly popular, there's a new thirst for great audio content and an audience clearly keen to hear shows created and hosted by women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community.
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Podcasting has come a long way since the mid-2000s, when the medium was largely dominated by tech enthusiasts recording mp3s in their basements. Now, podcasts have hit the mainstream, and those of us who prefer them to traditional radio have a very different perspective on what kinds of voices we expect to hear.
But podcast-obsessed millennials aren't the first ones to recognize the need to tackle the lack of diversity in radio.
Laura Walker is the president of New York Public Radio, where she’s been working for 21 years. Her first job in media was in 1979, and she's seen a huge shift in the way diversity has been addressed during that time.
"By having diverse perspectives on air and behind the scenes, you're asking yourself different questions."
"There's been a growth of diversity on air in general over the past few decades, but public radio has been a lot more forward-looking in many ways," she says, talking about one of her first roles in radio at NPR. "When I first got there, it was almost all men on air, and we've changed that."
Walker spearheaded Werk It, a women’s podcast festival, which aims to empower and celebrate women’s voices. She thinks it’s crucial for radio to reflect the audience it’s trying to reach.
"By having diverse perspectives on air and behind the scenes, you're asking yourself different questions. If we want to serve more people in New York, we need to sound more like the city," she says.
Figures released last year show that NYPR has managed to achieve an even gender split, with women making up 53 percent of the overall workforce and 45 percent of its board of trustees. When it comes to racial diversity, however, it still has a long way to go. Of its 40 board members, only six are people of color, and t...
Walker recognizes that podcasts are a lot more diverse than traditional radio — even public radio, often considered a beacon of progressive viewpoints in the media.
"There’s a lower barrier to entry [with podcasting] and people from all different backgrounds can create one,” she says, explaining that NYPR now has radio shows that started out as podcasts, such as Freakonomics Radio.
The number of people listening to podcasts is steadily increasing, and creators have a more diverse audience to serve. According to 2016 Edison research, podcast audiences are becoming increasingly racially diverse, with non-white listeners increasing from from 32 percent in 2011 to 37 percent in 2016.
NPR is another major player in the podcasting space. Its biggest successes include hugely popular radio shows that are also downloadable as podcasts, like Fresh Air, as well as original content created specifically for a podcast audience, such as Up First, a new daily news podcast. In response to the growing popularity...
Despite its reputation as a thought leader in this space, NPR’s diversity credentials are clearly lacking: recent figures showed that 75 percent of its newsroom staff is white.
But one way NPR is trying to diversify is through its Kroc Fellowship, a year-long paid training program for college graduates. In 2009, one of the fellows was Sam Sanders, who went on to cover politics for NPR, and was one of the original co-hosts of the hugely popular Politics Podcast. Last month, NPR launched It's B...
"I didn't know what NPR was until I was about 19 years old. When I first started listening I didn’t think much about the race of people talking, but I guess I assumed they were white," says Sanders, who is black. He's been involved in podcasting for years, but he's cautious about promoting the idea that the medium is a...
"We act like Serial [hosted by a woman, Sarah Koenig] came out of nowhere, but it came from This American Life, which for years has been the most popular podcast of all time, and as soon as Ira Glass told people to check it out, they did. These industries are very incestuous," Sanders says.
Two Dope Queens and Nancy are backed by WNYC. Another Round is hosted by major podcasting network Panoply, and created by BuzzFeed, which in itself is staffed by a number of executives formerly of The New York Times and Washington Post.
"The challenge is to find the genuinely independent raw talent, and put the weight of a network behind them."
For Sanders, true diversity will only be achieved when radio represents more than just the media elite, regardless of their gender or race. It’s the people with clear abilities but no background in media — or even knowledge of public radio — that should be sought out by the big networks.
Sanders says the diversity in background matters. If you have a host from a middle-class, East Coast upbringing who went to a liberal arts college, did a year-long internship at NPR and eventually gets their own show, that's not as diverse as it could be, regardless of that person's race or gender.
He sees a future in which big networks bring on people who have completely different experiences than their current hosts and editors, and will challenge their views rather than reinforce them.
Instead of simply acquiring podcasts and hosts who have been groomed to become the next Ira Glass, "the challenge is to find the genuinely independent raw talent, and put the weight of a network behind them," Sanders explains.
It’s easy for big media organizations to dismiss that, on the basis that it isn’t worth investing in untrained talent. But there are plenty of arguments that it's to their benefit. One example is Gimlet Media, a podcasting startup founded in 2014 by former This American Life and Planet Money staffer Alex Blumberg. With...
The host was Brittany Luse, who until then held a day job as a marketing manager while cohosting a show called For Colored Nerds on the side. Her natural flair for audio caught Gimlet’s eye, and they brought her on board. On July 17, she launched her second podcast for the company, The Nod, about black culture.
"I think that podcasting has the potential to be more democratic than most mainstream media," Luse says. “Without any formal training I went from barely competent marketing manager to fairly decent podcast host in a matter of months."
"If I'd never heard a radio show with black voices, why would I study to be an editor or a producer?"
Despite her experience, Luse knows that even at the most forward-thinking company, there's always more to be done when it comes to achieving equality, diversity, and inclusion.
In December 2015 she appeared on an episode of Gimlet’s StartUp, a podcast that explores issues about starting and running a business, using Gimlet itself as a case study. She spoke with Blumberg about the company’s lack of diversity — only three out of 27 employees were non-white at the time. Last month they recorded ...
I spoke to Sarah, the 17-year-old aspiring podcaster, about this.
"Hearing that episode made me sad, but also hopeful," she says. "For generations, black people haven’t been properly represented in the media, and I think that makes us think we can’t be a part of it. If I’d never heard a radio show with black voices, why would I study to be an editor or a producer?"
Sarah says that means there’s a talent gap, and it ends up being "a vicious circle." She thinks smaller companies in podcasting can change that.
Luse knows how rare these types of conversations are, especially ones that are broadcast for everyone to hear, and she’s aware that she's "speaking for a lot of people of color in the workforce who can't have these conversations with their bosses."
A key element in achieving equality of any kind is to acknowledge our subconscious biases. Sam Sanders' experience, when he began listening to NPR and assumed everyone was white, still holds true today. Kathy Tu and Tobin Low, the hosts of the podcast Nancy, realized this was the case when they jokingly suggested "comi...
"We'd both had experiences where people would hear our voice on the phone and just automatically assume we were white," Low explains. "And initially when we recorded that segment, it was sort of a joke, but listening back we both really liked the energy it brought to it."
Tu agreed that the segment should stay. She wanted them to sound like themselves. The whole point of the podcast was to do something new.
"It's no secret that radio tends to be white, so one of the reasons I liked it was that we weren’t trying to blend in," she says.
For all the podcasters I spoke to, one theme seemed to link their experiences: They all made the podcasts they wanted to listen to, and in doing so created content for audiences that, until now, had been ignored. And when these podcasts were amplified by big networks with huge reach and influence, they took off, provin...
But Luse, for one, is cautiously optimistic about the change.
"I hope it's not just a trend, and that in the future our work is not some anomaly," she says. "And I'd be happy to have absolutely no need for ‘diversity in podcasting’ discussions ever again. We'll see how that actually pans out."
Is my son fully protected from the sun at school?
My son's school is not allowed to apply sunscreen to the children, although he can use roll on sun protection. They say that he should have adequate cover by applying sunscreen before school - before 8.30am when we leave for school.
The school has breaks around 10.30am, lunchtime and most often out in the afternoon without adequate shady areas.
Is he really going to be fully protected from burning in the sun during this time?