by Anne Skyvington | Jun 5, 2018 | Psychology, Writing Topics
GREEKS of ANTIQUITY I had my first taste of philosophy at Armidale Teachers College in 1961. This was one of the options that I chose to study, apart from the more mundane teaching subjects that were mandatory. Miss Margaret Mackie enchanted us with stories of the...
by Anne Skyvington | Feb 8, 2017 | Psychology, Writing Topics
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875-1961) created many of the enduring terms for the mind and for the unconscious that have enriched literature and humanity during the twentieth century. Certainly he was firstly a follower of Freud and the psychoanalytic...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 22, 2016 | Psychology, Writing Topics
Swedish love coach, Carolin Dahlman, gave a presentation to our writers’ group on the idea of networking in order to be published. Most of the large group of writers who attended were hoping to be published one day. Her message was that, in this fast-moving...
by Anne Skyvington | Sep 15, 2016 | Psychology, Writing Topics
I must tread carefully here… I have to be careful when discussing the concept of left versus right brained people, as I’m married to a scientist, who also happens to be a very creative person. He was an actor when we first met, but has for a long time...
by Anne Skyvington | Aug 21, 2016 | Psychology, Writing Topics
When I was sixteen, a boyfriend said during one of our many debates on the existence or not of God: “What if we decided not to believe, and woke up one day to realise we were wrong all along. We’d feel a goon. Maybe we should hedge our bets just in...
by Anne Skyvington | Aug 20, 2016 | Psychology, Writing Topics
Most people don’t admit to being afraid; this refers especially to men. That’s one of the reasons for the denial and stigmatising of mental illness. Showing vulnerable feelings is shameful in many people’s eyes. But everyone is fearful of something,...
