By Lida Prypchan The triple I is the answer: Impulsiveness + Instability + Inability to Adapt to One’s Environment Usually, one associates the sociopath (psychopathic or antisocial personality) with delinquency. Many others associate it with sexual offenders. There will be a few or many cases, but it is known that not …
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Attitudes Regarding the Mentally Ill
By Lida Prypchan Many of my master classes are given at the Bárbula Psychiatric Hospital. When entering the psychiatric hospital the students already expected to see some of the mentally ill residing there asking for money. The response is always laughter and giggles. There is a patient who usually comes up from the back or …
The Fisherman and His Soul
A Tale by Oscar Wilde Every afternoon, the young fisherman went to the sea and cast his nets, but in vain as he caught nothing or very little at best. Then there came a black-winged cruel wind, and the stormy waves rose up to meet him. What little he would catch he sold in the …
The Feeling of Guilt
By Lida Prypchan There will always be someone who writes about civilization, who criticizes it, who calls it the “Present Shakiness” as J.F. Baena Reyes, who, in his column Lipstick, branded the world in which we move about as a “viscous quagmire of confusion.” And not without good reason. We are in the …
The Don Juan
By Lida Prypchan For a woman, taking a walk through the streets of Valencia is a bit of an annoyance, not because of the walk itself, but due to the attitude towards her taken by many of the male inhabitants circulating through the city. This eagerness to talk to women, to say unpleasant …
Looking for Meaning in Life
By Lida Prypchan There are two images we have from the Middle Ages: Both, though internally opposed, form a truth because they address without fear the virtues and defects of an era distant from us. It would be a mistake to accept with passion and zealotry only one of them. Its real significance …
Examination As a Neurotic Factor in the Student-Teacher Relationship
By Lida Prypchan Traditional examinations are a mythologized anachronism that put real stress on the student-teacher equation. If you ask any student about the usefulness of this method of evaluation, the responses are overwhelmingly baffling and ambiguous, mediated by the urge to finish their classes with a degree permitting them to go into …
Educational Explosion
By Lida Prypchan The most recent generations of students and teachers have run into a serious problem; given the educational explosion parallel to the demographic growth of the population, classrooms worldwide face a common spectacle: student overcrowding, a shortage of teachers and insufficient time to cover all the materials needed for professional training. …
The Art of Scientific Investigation
By Lida Prypchan Chance Undoubtedly chance has played an important role in scientific discoveries. Its importance increases when we think about how common failures and frustrations are in research. Probably most of the discoveries in biology and medicine have been unexpected or at least have had an element of chance, especially the most …
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
By Lida Prypchan The Dostoyevsky’s had their roots in the Russian nobility. But their genealogy presents a long line of mystics, the mentally unbalanced, geniuses and the criminally insane. A Maria Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for killing her first husband after trying to kill her stepson. As the result of …