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🔆 WHY SITUATIONS MATTER Within certain powerful social settings, human nature can be transformed in ways as dramatic as the chemical transformation in Robert Louis Stevenson's captivating fable of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The enduring interest in the SPE (Stanford Prison Experiment) over many decades comes, I think, from the experiment's startling revelation of "transformation of character"- of good people suddenly becoming perpetrators of evil as guards or pathologically p

Dear friends, from the bottom of my heart I congratulate all of us on the feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God!🙌✨🩵✨ Also, on this day we celebrate the feast of Saint Romanos the Melodist (the Sweet-Singer) - patron of all church singers! 🎶🎼🎶 St. Romanos lived in the 6th century. And the vision of the Protection occurred in the 10th century. St. Romanos composed many kontakia (a brief hymn glorifying God, the Mother of God, or a saint). Today I want to s

🔆 ‘Mental health should be viewed not as a homogeneous construct, but as one with a complex, multi-level structure. The highest level  of mental health is the personal–meaning level , or the level of personal health, which is determined by the quality of a person’s meaning-laden relationships. The next level is the level of individual-psychological health , whose assessment depends on a person’s ability to find adequate ways of realizing meaningful aspirations, to build a sy