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The Hidden Code Behind Everything You Do

The Hidden Code Behind Everything You Do
yesterday 20

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Tahir Rahman M.d

Imprinted Archetypes in Pain, Eating Disorders, Querulants

Imprinted Archetypes in Pain, Eating Disorders, Querulants
saturday 8

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Serial Killing as an Imprinted and Fixed Action Pattern

Serial Killing as an Imprinted and Fixed Action Pattern
10.03.2025 20

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Primate Lessons: An Evolutionary Lens on School Shootings

28.02.2025 10

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Symbolic Triggers and Fixed Action Patterns in Humans

26.02.2025 30

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Schadenfreude: The Hidden Fuel of Grievance and Bloodshed

13.02.2025 30

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Disrupting Imprints in Autism

09.02.2025 30

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Thumos and the Psyche: Forgotten by Modern Psychiatry

08.02.2025 10

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Fairy Tale or Trap? How Beauty Ideals Imprint Young Brains

06.02.2025 50

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Imprinted for Violence? How Biology and Beliefs Mold Killers

04.02.2025 40

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Van Gogh’s Madness: A Modern Medical Investigation

30.01.2025 10

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Archetypes and Their Biological Roots

25.01.2025 9

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How Machines and Humans Create Misinformation Together

09.01.2025 10

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Distorted Archetypes Are Important in Threat Assessment

09.01.2025 20

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Decoding the ARCH Triad: Spotting the Next School Shooter

A triad of forces motivates violent attacks: beliefs, archetypes, and thymotic drive.

24.12.2024 4

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Fixations With a Lethal Purpose: Extreme Overvalued Beliefs

Here's how dangerous beliefs take hold, and why we miss the warning signs.

18.12.2024 5

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A Warning Lesson From Lee Harvey Oswald’s Wedding Ring

The last resort proximal warning behavior—symbolic gestures of intent.

17.12.2024 5

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From Toxicity to Thoughtfulness

How reaction sliders could revolutionize social media.

16.12.2024 7

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Breast Cancer’s Shadow: The Struggles of Hormone Therapy

How hormone therapy affects sleep, anxiety, and intimacy.

15.12.2024 6

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Shifting the American Relationship With Firearms

Personal Perspective: Transforming symbols of power into responsibility.

14.12.2024 5

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Enhancing DSM-5 With Comprehensive Threat Assessment Criteria

Threat assessment and a hopeful path to safer communities.

11.12.2024 4

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When AI Connects the Wrong Dots, Chatbots Can Fuel Tragedy

AI chatbots and cognitive shortcuts create dangers.

10.12.2024 4

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The New Frontier of Electro-Steroidogenesis

Electricity can release powerful neurosteroids in the brain.

25.11.2024 4

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Violence Motivated By Jungian Archetypes

Emotions from the collective unconscious can become extreme overvalued beliefs.

10.11.2024 2

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The Brain's Cholesterol Holds Promise for New Treatments

Breakthrough cholesterol-derived neurosteroids can treat mental illnesses.

25.10.2024 2

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Self-Destructive Protesting in the Waves of Political Change

Violence towards self or others is something we should all work to prevent.

08.10.2024 4

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Can High Prolactin Levels Increase Risk of Breast Cancer?

What the latest research on prolactin and breast cancer shows.

05.10.2024 4

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Why Did a Pilot Crash a Passenger Jet Into the French Alps?

Motives seen in mass shooters might reveal answers in the Andreas Lubitz case.

04.10.2024 3

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An Overvalued Desire for Motherhood Leads to Homicide

Was Lisa Montgomery delusional or did she suffer an extreme overvalued belief? 

02.10.2024 4

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The Extreme Overvalued Beliefs of Shooters

Threat assessment can be done using terrorist radicalization assessments.

27.09.2024 4

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Assassins and Their Fixations

Modern forensic definitions provide precision threat assessment criteria.

17.09.2024 6

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Four Keys of Threat Analysis

What mental health professionals must learn to keep us all safe.

11.09.2024 4

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Mass Shooters Acting From Within a Depraved Subculture

The concept of overvalued ideas provides guidance for preventing mass shootings.

10.09.2024 4

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How Online Interaction Foments Odd or Dangerous Beliefs

Internet Cognitive Isoforms: How our brains connect the dots.

08.09.2024 3

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School Shooters: Recognizing Extreme Overvalued Beliefs

Non-delusional, rigidly held beliefs motivate most school shooters.

05.09.2024 10

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