Category: Thinking with Somebody Else’s Head

Some have called it a collaboration between God and the artist. For others, it is a way to escape. It's been used to persuade, to manipulate and to seduce. Its stars' sins make headlines, and their victories make billions. But its impact is much more than simply economic. Today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head,

Imagine two people with the same disease, same treatment, same relative social class. But one gets well, and the other doesn't. A mystery? A coincidence? A situation with multiple explanations? It's a question for which science has no ready answers. Now it appears, we can finally explain it. We've been exploding some commonly-held assumptions on

Neurosis, sado-masochistic behavior, schizo-paranoid personalities. We've come to understand those terms applied to personal psychology. But seldom have we heard them applied to nations or even historical periods. Until now. Today, we'll dive into a fascinating study - the psychoanalysis of society. A couple of weeks ago, we started the process of investigating the social

I wish I had a dollar for every piece of advice in the world about today's topic. Apparently, men are from Mars and women from Venus. There's a secret language between you to understand. There can be perfect love, but imperfect relationships some say. There's help in the stars, soulmate consulting. For anyone who's looking

Some see it as a belief in your abilities and talents. Others that it's the result of what you've been told and taught. We've heard that we have to earn it, but that we deserve it at the same time. That we can build it, that we need affirmations. Hypnosis. To unleash our power within.

I was looking up synonyms for love the other day - arguably one of the most important words in the English language. As a verb, the word has about 40. Money - our topic today on Thinking With Somebody Else's Head - has 56. (I didn't even bother looking up "love of money"). But whatever

It's being called the great secret of the universe, passed down through the ages, the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love ... well, you get the picture. Newton knew it, it is said. So did Carnegie, Beethoven and Einstein. The implication being that if you don't have everything, the secret will give it

Our world is dominated by it. And so we tend to believe it's natural. Even that it's divinely ordained. It's created billionaires, and opponents would argue, systemized the destitution of the majority of the world's population. It's evolved of course, but the origins of capitalism can be traced to one man ... Adam Smith. I'm

Human beings have been raising kids forever. There are oceans of words on the subject. Mountains of theories. Even comic strips. You can pay to have child rearing advice, or get an earful of the unpaid kind every time the in-laws come over. But are there any final conclusions? When you Google the topic, you'll