THE CAPRANICA

I saw this hilarious Bob Newhart clip on counseling some time ago.  I’ve had some great laughs with ministry partners about how it too well reflects my own counseling approach (desires?!) .  But, David Powlison speaks to this clip and seriously provides some good reminders (as he always seems to do).  Though - I still [...]

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In our culture’s quest to wrest human responsibilty from any objective moral standards, out comes another scientific study that says scientists know where the brain determines what we choose.  Now that they have found it, the poor victims of compulsive gambling and eating disorders will no doubt soon have medications that [...]

Excessive gambling among victims of Parkinson’s disease can now be linked to one of the most popular drugs used to treat the malady. In fact, a number of excessive behaviors, like sex and shopping, can also be attributed to the drug Mirapex among Parkinson’s patients.
The article linked above gives a number of “testimonies” of people [...]

Finally, a level-headed evaluation of the biased approach a number in the psychobabble world use to classify people as mentally ill. This Weekly Standard article by Paul McHugh is an objective evaluation of how mental illness diagnosticians flee from objective evaluation standards in determining who is mentally ill.
Recent mental health evaluations have suggested that well [...]

The mental illness business continues to try and draw virtually everyone into their net. According to the referenced report, most mental illness begins around age 14 and is typically detected through “mild, easy-to-dismiss symptoms such as low-level anxiousness or persistent shyness . . .”
Ah yes, if this is so, we are all sick. [...]

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)! What is SAD? It is another disorder drawn from the objectivity of science (**heavy sarcasm**). SAD is another possible explanation for why people become depressed. According to the study, in months where there is little sunlight, the brain begins to shrink (at least it does in rats). This creates more depression-causing [...]