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Someone Else’s Twin: Babies Switched at Birth

Laurie Swoboda — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:07:36 +0000

Dr. Mercy interviews Dr. Nancy Segal, Professor of Psychology and Director of Twin Studies at the California State University, Fullerton, will be discussing twins switched at birth. As a fraternal twin, psychologist and researcher, Dr. Segal has been uniquely positioned to perform ground-breaking studies on twins including her work at the University of Minnesota with ...

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The Hero Journey

Laurie Swoboda — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:23:56 +0000

Dr. Mercy provides a guided tour through the sages of the monomyth known as the hero's journey. In narratology and comparative mythology, the hero's journey, or the monomyth, is the common template of stories that involve a hero who goes on an adventure, is victorious in a decisive crisis, and comes home changed or transformed. Earlier ...

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Navajo Myth of the Twin Brothers

Laurie Swoboda — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 16:01:14 +0000

The Navajo have occupied their sacred lands in the Four Corners for centuries. The Hero Twins tells the story of two brothers born to Changing Woman and trained by the Holy People to save their people from the naayéé', a race of monsters. Kit Carson joins the story as naayéé'. Kit Carson was ordered to subdue ...

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Living the Symbolic Life

Laurie Swoboda — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:52:08 +0000

Dr. Margery Runyan, psychotherapist, discusses the practices of Dr. Carl Jung, a disciple of Sigmund Freud until they separated over theoretical differences. Dr. Jung believed that the unconscious had a collective component composed of symbolic energy nodes known as archetypes. Freud believed that the unconscious was filled solely with repressed personal material. Dr. Mercy contrasts ...

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Kari Nadeau MD and Allergy Research with Twins

Laurie Swoboda — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:35:04 +0000

Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, FAAAAI, is a member of the academic faculty at Stanford Medical School and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Director of Allergy Clinics at Stanford Medical Center within the Division of Immunology and Allergy. She is a practicing clinician and a prominent researcher in the field of allergies Dr. Nadeau oversees: Translational ...

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Synchronicity and the Twin Archetype

Laurie Swoboda — Tue, 31 May 2022 21:22:23 +0000

Dr. Mercy discusses the process of synchronicity proposed by Dr. Carl Jung, a disciple of Sigmund Freud, a practicing psychiatrist in Switzerland during the 20th century, and a proponent of the collective unconscious. He used the term synchronicity to describe acausal events that occur simultaneously in the realm of Consciousness. In 'On the Nature of ...

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Poked, Prodded and Measured: Twin Studies

Laurie Swoboda — Thu, 26 May 2022 22:11:27 +0000

In this program, Dr. Mercy will discuss studies performed with identical and fraternal twins as participants. If you have been a participant in a twin study perhaps through one of the large registries that exist through the United States and the world, we would love to hear your experiences. Twin studies can be cross-sectional or ...

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