“Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.” GivingShouldLooksVoiceChallengesHonestyDoctorsAccountsProfoundProfessionMedicalPsychologicalDramaticAdulthoodShould IInsidersMedical Profession Author:Akhil Sharma
“A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.” SpiritualDifferencesHealingAccountsPsychologicalDimensionsTouchingCompassionateFixingSpiritual Dimensions Author:Melvin Konner
“I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.” MomentsSituationPsychologyAccountsConvincedBoundariesPsychologicalOrganismsNew Situations Book:Conversations with Jean Piaget Source: Conversations with Jean Piaget
“The psychological consequences of this spread of white culture have been out of all proportion to the materialistic. This world-wide cultural diffusion has protected us as man had never been protected before from having to take seriously the civilizations of other peoples; it has given to our culture a massive universality that we have long ceased to account for historically, and which we read off rather as necessary and inevitable.” MenWorldLongHas BeensCultureGivenWhiteThis WorldCivilizationConsequenceAccountsSpreadWidePsychologicalInevitableProportionMassiveProtectedMaterialisticUniversalityDiffusion Author:Ruth Benedict
“As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure of human well-being. Even as basic an issue as poverty has to be re-examined to take into account the psychological sense of deprivation that makes people feel poor.” PeopleFeelsHumansWellsEnoughPoorPovertyIssuesCenturyMaterialsDrawsAccountsObviousPsychologicalWell BeingAdequateTwentieth CenturyDeprivationYardsticks Book:Towards a true refuge Source: Towards a true refuge
“The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.” IfsShouldSchoolFormOrderSpeakProcessInterestClassBoysTeacherSucceedAccountsMathematicsPsychologicalAbstractPsychicsPresentationSystematicDiplomatsUpper Class Author:Felix Klein
“A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really know who's running it - but this is all totally out in the open. It's this new program that will allow them to have like ten fake Twitter accounts and ten Facebook accounts so you can pretend.” KnowsRunningGuyCommunicationTenProgramAccountsPsychologicalOperationsFakeSoftwareStrategicPentagon Author:Michael Hastings