I'm an engineer, artist, mom, wife, and registered nurse. I work on an inpatient psych unit and live in Vancouver, WA with my husband Jeff and our menagerie of dog, parrots, cats, and a couple of corn snakes.
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Arts and Crafts a la Nursing School
For an assignment in one of my classes this term I gave a presentation on IUDs to a bunch of nurse practitioners who work in the Multnomah County teen health clinics. I did a PowerPoint presentation, and after every few slides I inserted one with a question. The idea was to give prizes to whoever [...]
Posted: November 23rd, 2005 under Eccentricities.
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Orgone Energy Distraction
A couple of weeks ago my psych prof Dr. Carlson mentioned, as sort of a brief post-script at the end of our section on Sigmund Freud, a guy named Wilhelm Reich. Dr. Reich was a Freudian analyst who thought that there should be a way to detect the libido energy that Freud theorized powered the [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2004 under Eccentricities, Parallel Universes.
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Wandering Wombs
I was reading in my psych text recently about how back in pre-Freudian times when women suffered from “hysteria” they decided that it was caused by a “wandering womb”. The root word of “hysteria” is from a Greek word that means “uterus”. The malady had various manifestations, including spontaneous blindness, partial or even full paralysis, [...]
Posted: October 4th, 2004 under Eccentricities.
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