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Shyness or a Deeper Problem? Social Anxiety Disorder
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Love)
WHAT IS SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER? (aka SAD, Social Phobia)
Social Anxiety Disorder (also known as SAD or Social Phobia) is a mental illness affecting more than 15 million Americans today. This disorder usually manifests itself during early adolescence... |
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The Necessity of the Preparation Before The Overseas Business Trip
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Andrew Schwartz)
During the preparation for a two year overseas business trip in Nigeria, an American manager in the 70`s had to be inoculated against the great number (more than thirty) of diseases from the jungle and hay fever to hepatitis. But all these vaccinatio... |
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The U-Curve Of The Cultural Shock
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Andrew Schwartz)
The system of cross - cultural learning was established to avoid so - called "cultural shock". This term was created by Kalvero Oberg in the year 1960. Oberg characterizes the symptoms of the cultural shock as the fear of the possibility to lose the ... |
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The Problems Of The Cultural Shock For Americans
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Andrew Schwartz)
In the United States there is a big percent of failures. The main reason of it is the natural for the Americans feature - a huge ethnocentric, which was especially widespread during the 1950`s and 1960`s. In that period of time Americans began to pro... |
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The Ways To Adapt In New Environment
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Andrew Schwartz)
There is a famous proverb: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do". But it is significant that in the situation of the repatriation this proverb must not be the rule. The best way in new conditions is not to copy the behavior and mimic of the local popul... |
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The upgrade of the mental software
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Andrew Schwartz)
The famous scientist Geert Hofstede developed the theory of the "mental software". Hofstede operates with the differences between various national cultures with the help of five elements: power distance, uncertainly escapes, collectivism against pers... |
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The Theories of Rodger and Jung
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Andrew Schwartz)
Carl Rodgers was the follower of Freud. He believed in the views of Freud but his points of view were of self were simpler as the views of Freud. Rodgers thought that "mental health" was the natural development of life. His theory is built on the sin... |
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One Year Draft Dodger - There Was A Message
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Hal Jacobs)
I was 18 years old in 1948, had graduated high school and could expect to be drafted for 2 years in the near future. Back then 18 and 19 year olds had an option other than waiting to be drafted. They could enlist in the army for one year, not two, an... |
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What Is Aesthetics?
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Andrew Schwartz)
Aesthetics is the process by means of which people judge about the beauty, shapes the culture within which people state themselves creatively. There were a lot of works of famous philosophers which developed the problem of aesthetics and people's att... |
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We Have Two Heads And We Need To Be Smart In Both !
(Wed Oct 24th, 2007, by Martin Mak)
All of our thoughts are attached to emotions. They are like Siamese twins. In fact the link to emotions is so strong that our clearest memories, those with vivid details are the emotionally charged ones. In fact you can remember so far back to your c... |
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