Collaborative Crossword Puzzling on Flickr- March 28, 2008 Click through to the Flickr page to see the notes.http://www.caterina.net/archive/001107.html Lyn Cowan on Mentalspeak.- March 25, 2008 In her essay Feeding the psyche, Junk words and corn-fed music, psychologist Lyn Cowan attacks the meaningless language of psychology, lacking depth and significance, words such as addiction, dysfunctional, relationship, boundary, depression, personal growth, abuse, wellness, wholeness, positive, negative, appropriate, sexuality, spirituality. She calls this "mentalspeak." Consider the mentalspeak word "issue". "Issue" is an all-purpose word that has replaced several other words, such as...http://www.caterina.net/archive/001106.html |